195 Quotes by Dag Hammarskjöld

The UN was not created to take mankind to heaven, but to save humanity from hell.

He is one of those who has had the wilderness for a pillow, and called a star his brother. Alone. But loneliness can be a communion.

When the sense of the earth unites with the sense of one's body, one becomes earth of the earth, a plant among plants, an animal born from the soil and fertilizing it. In this union, the body is confirmed in its pantheism.

A heart pulsating in harmony with the circulation of sap and the flow of rivers? A body with the rhythms of the earth in its movements? No. Instead: a mind, shut off from the oxygen of alert senses, that has wasted itself on 'treasons, stratagems and spoils'--of importance only within four walls. A tame animal--in whom the strength of the species has outspent itself, to no purpose.

Trees quiver in the wind,sailing on a sea of mistout of earshot.

Like the bee, we distill poison from honey for our self-defense--what happens to the bee if it uses its sting is well known.

Better than other people.' Sometimes he says: 'That, at least, you are.' But more often: 'Why should you be? Either you are what you can be, or you are not - like other people.

My home drove meinto the wilderness.Few look for me. Few hear me.

Apes. The moon woke them--round the world's navel revolvedprayer wheels of steps.