Jeet ThayilThe world is on fire time is a bomb. Ten thousand years are not enough When so much remains to be done
About This Quote
The meaning of this quote is that the world is on fire, which means that humans are destroying the Earth, and that time is a bomb, which means that time does not last forever. Life will end anyway, but this quote says that humans need not wait for the end of human history to take action.
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