My parents are both college professors, and it made me want to question authority, standards and traditions.
Maya LinRead
How we are using up our home, how we are living and polluting the planet is frightening. It was evident when I was a child. It's more evident now.
Interpretation
What this quote means
The quote reflects deep concern for environmental degradation and its worsening state over time.
Maya Lin highlights the urgent issue of environmental destruction and pollution that has escalated since her childhood. She expresses her fear and dismay at how humanity's actions are compromising the health of our planet, serving as a reminder of the responsibility we have to protect our home for future generations.
Themes
EnvironmentPollutionPlanetHomeNatureAwareness
In practice
Example use cases
In a speech about climate change, the quote can emphasize the urgency of environmental action.
More from Maya Lin
All quotes βI try to give people a different way of looking at their surroundings. That's art to me.
Maya LinRead
Sometimes you have to stop thinking. Sometimes you shut down completely. I think that's true in any creative field.
Maya LinRead
A lot of my works deal with a passage, which is about time. I don't see anything that I do as a static object in space. It has to exist as a journey in time.
Maya LinRead
When I was building the Vietnam Memorial, I never once asked the veterans what it was like in the war, because from my point of view, you don't pry into other people's business.
Maya LinRead
I though about what death is, what a loss is. A sharp pain that lessens with time, but can never quite heal over. A scar. The idea occurred to me there on the site. Take a knife and cut open the earth, and with time the grass would heal it. As if you cut open the rock and polished it.
Maya LinRead
Similar quotes
Nature is slow, but sure; she works no faster than need be; she is the tortoise that wins the race by her perseverance.
Henry David ThoreauRead
Invariably our best nights were those when it rained.
Henry David ThoreauRead
What is the use of a house if you haven't got a tolerable planet to put it on?
Henry David ThoreauRead
We won't have a society if we destroy the environment.
Margaret MeadRead
Oh, Adam was a gardener, and God who made him sees That half a proper gardener's work is done upon his knees, So when your work is finished, you can wash your hands and pray For the Glory of the Garden, that it may not pass away!
Rudyard KiplingRead
The grass as bristly and stout as chives and me wondering when the ground will break and me wondering how anything fragile survives
Anne SextonRead