Author of quotes: Clifford Donald Simak

Although he [Jason] really doubt that the person was really ever true owner of the Land. It would be better to say that People captured her, and taking away from other creatures, who had her same rights, but not possessed of intelligence, ability or enough power to defend these rights. People were rather pushy, arrogant occupier and not the owner, the owner. He won the power of the mind, which can be no less disgusting than the strength of muscle, creating your own rules, setting their own goals, establishing their own values and completely ignoring everything else that was living on Earth.

He looked up and saw the most ordinary face. The same people were at those women in the bus, the same person was Mrs. Leslie, the same persons were those people who dared to sit next to him on the bus. Mr. Leslie, who had filled his life with booze and women, it was the same face. It was the faces of the people, and that the minutes could not be alone with him, face tired of people not aware of his fatigue, the faces of frightened people, unaware of their own fears.
All these people gnawed unconsciously anxiety, has become an integral part of life and forcing to look for some psychological shields to hide behind them.
The fun hasn't helped, also cynicism, skepticism acted for a while. And the people immersed in the illusion, thinking himself another life, in another time and place, the long hours they sat in movie theaters and in front of the TV or immersed in speculation in the clubs visionaries. While you were someone, you could not be yourself.

Their world was a closed world. Maybe that's why they crashed - because they are not left where to go?

The desire to achieve something is gone, the whole life of people has become a Paradise for the barren flowers.

When all is well, the time passes imperceptibly, and in the end it cease to feel.

The five senses: smell, sight, hearing, taste, touch. The five senses, which man has known since time immemorial! But unless they can not be more? It is possible that person has other senses that are waiting development.

The world is not so good. It is built on blood and misery, in its Foundation, too many bones. Throughout its history almost not there years, free from violence, organized official violence in any corner of the globe.

Our way of life determine the capital, be it private or public, and the wages you get for working your daily work.

Sooner or later humanity must learn to solve arising tasks in some other ways, not just brute force.

You can not give up, I thought, remembering our previous fights, I never gave up. While standing, it is necessary to fight, and even if you piled upon the ground and you are no longer able to stand, still can not admit defeat.

I didn't realize that she is beautiful - even more beautiful than I was in school, in the days when in my eyes she was enveloped in a starry haze. Here it is, very close - even more beautiful than it drew my memory.

I was drawn to her, I wanted to hug her - and yet even in that moment I knew that I wanted to hug not the Nancy Sherwood who sits next to in the car, and former friend of the far-distant days.

Only plants are able to capture, transform and keep a reserve something without which no life. And only using the energy accumulated by plants, there may be animals and people. If the plants become inedible, all life except them will die.

Human perception is extremely limited: we don't know what abilities we lack, and do not suffer from their poverty it is because just can't imagine myself in other, gifted generously.