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The Earth is alive. It is not just clay beneath our feet, nor is it a “resource” that can be taken and sold. The Earth is a living being on a journey. It has a past, a present, and a future. It breathes, grows, and remembers. And—like every living being—it yearns for light.

“The Earth Becomes the Sun” is a vision of its future. Just as a tree grows from a small, dark seed buried in the ground, so too will the earth itself one day open up and shine. Today it seems heavy, dark, and dense. But within it, light already slumbers—like a spark in flint that has not yet been struck. The time will come—and what was hard and dark will become light.

This does not happen on its own—it happens through people. The earth cannot become the sun without us, just as a seed cannot become a tree without soil, water, and light. When a person goes out into the field with love—not to take, but to cultivate—they become a plowman who lets light into the earth. There is an ancient image of such a plowman—Mykula Selyaninovich. His strength lies not in cutting through, but in loosening the soil: he does not wage war against the earth; he helps it bear fruit. Every furrow made with love is a step the earth takes toward the sun.

Human beings are mediators of light. We often think of humans as small, weak creatures in the midst of vast nature. But in reality, it is through humans that the earth learns to shine. When a person thinks, feels, and loves—they bring into the world something that could not exist without them. And when they do this while turned toward the earth—they pass their light on to the earth. This is how the earth gradually becomes the sun—through the hands, hearts, and thoughts of the people who cultivate it.

The earth does not belong to us—we belong to the earth. We do not buy land to own it. We accept it to protect it—for our children, for the future, for those who will come after us. The first free hectare is not a deal. It is a seed. Land that is not fought over, that simply breathes—that is already the beginning of the sun.

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