6 Quotes by Wu Ming-Yi

Recently I keep thinking that this isn’t about the survival of a species. It’s about why we’re never satisfied with what we need, why we always take a bit more.

Sometimes I think that in the end all art is selfish, that it won't necessarily change other people's minds-but whatever it changes, you yourself knows best.

The moment a man traverses a mountain range on a bicycle, he is like the first Mongolian you ever lept onto a wild horse on the steppe -- a rearing, snorting, bucking creature no one had ever thought to tame, because taming it would be on thinkable. The rider's body senses the Earth moving underfoot, a sensation humans have never known before, and which remains impossible to measure.

Con amore, difendete la terra con amore, perchè è una cosa preziosa, come la pioggia e il cuore delle donne".

The love of old things is a way of respecting time.

So this was what a mountain was like, the same as a person: the more you know, the less you fear.