“We need farmers, poets, people who know how to make bread, people who love trees and who understand the way the wind blows. More important than a year of growth would be a year of awareness. Awareness of those of us who fall, of the sun that is born and that dies, of the children who grow up, awareness also of simple things like a street light or a brick wall eroded in time. To be a revolutionary today means to be able to take away rather than to add, to slow down rather than to speed up, it means to value silence, the light of day, fragility, sweetness.”
(Franco Armino, poet and writer)