Lennart Meri quotes:

In the past, when I shot films about fishermen and hunters, I always had to admire their ability to perceive time in its entirety. The present was always temporary.

Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect.

Ive never met a general yet who could milk a cow.

Science will liberate us from the chains of big cities and lead us back to nature.

Our civilisation has lost this bond between times, and tends to measure time with a yardstick, bit by bit, from one point to another.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography.

Looking in the mirror to check if my tie is straight is a waste of my time. I only look in the mirror once a day, and that's in the morning when I shave.

If geography is prose, maps are iconography,

Security is like virginity: you're either a virgin or you're not. You either have security or you don't.

I've never met a general yet who could milk a cow.

Traveling is the only passion that doesn't need to feel shy in front of intellect,

Throughout Soviet times, I understood what was really happening in the world around me.

With that radio I was always swimming with the current political streams in the West. I was never stranded.

I am not always happy with the compliments Estonia has received.

History is more interesting than politics.

I was too busy looking into Yeltsin's eyes to notice what was under the table.