- Bill Markham: Why did you take my son?
- Wanadi: One day, i was hunting at the Edge of The World when Tomme appeared and he smiled; and even though you were a Termite Child, I had not the heart to send you back to The Dead World.
- Tomme: Why are they called The Termite People?
- Wanadi: They come into The World and chew down all the grandfather trees. Just like termites.
- [forest is being destroyed to make way for a dam]
- Mapi: They are tearing the skin off The World! How will she breathe?
- Bill Markham: Tomme, I want you to come with me. Momme wants you to come home.
- Kachiri: He is finished with mothers. I am his woman now.
- Bill Markham: You stole my son.
- Tomme: Dadee.
- Bill Markham: He took you from me, from Momme.
- Tomme: That was long ago.
- Bill Markham: I just want you to see the home that you came from.
- Tomme: This is my home. It will be the home of my children.
- Werner: Can you smell it? The oxygen? 40% of the world's oxygen is produced here in the Amazon.
- Bill Markham: Come on, Uwe, oxygen doesn't smell. It's... the rot, the decay.
- Werner: Also the blossoms.
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