“the world is the cradle and your trap.”

"Workers of the World Awaken"

Pt. 4
Travels With Charley: In Search of America (1962)
Source: Travels with Charley: In Search of America

All I Need
Lyrics, In Rainbows (2007)

Seasons Change
Anastacia (2004)

From a letter written in 1911
Usually cited as Earth is the cradle of humanity, but one cannot live in a cradle forever. http://web.archive.org/web/20060421175318/http://www.uranos.eu.org/biogr/ciolke.html

2009, A New Beginning (June 2009)
Context: It's easier to start wars than to end them. It is easier to blame others than to look inward. It is easier to see what is different about someone than to find the things we share. But we should choose the right path, not just the easy path. There is one rule that lies at the heart of every religion: that we do unto others as we would have them do unto us. This truth transcends nations and peoples, a belief that isn't new; that isn't black or white or brown; that isn't Christian, or Muslim or Jew. It's a belief that pulsed in the cradle of civilization, and that still beats in the heart of billions around the world. It's a faith in other people, and it's what brought me here today.

A Man From Lebanon: Nineteen Centuries Afterward
Jesus, The Son of Man (1928)
Context: Here and there, betwixt the cradle and the coffin, I meet your silent brothers,
The free men, unshackled,
Sons of your mother earth and space.
They are like the birds of the sky,
And like the lilies of the field.
They live your life and think your thoughts,
And they echo your song.
But they are empty-handed,
And they are not crucified with the great crucifixion,
And therein is their pain.
The world crucifies them every day,
But only in little ways.
The sky is not shaken,
And the earth travails not with her dead.

Source: The Portable Dorothy Parker