“The whole earth is the Lord’s earth, and wherever you live a good and useful life under His gaze, that spot will be your home.”

The story is based on a report by a Russian ship's captain who, during one of his voyages, discovered a number of fertile islands. Upon landing on one of these islands, the sailors found a family consisting of a father, mother, and four children. Their ship had been wrecked, leaving no one but them to survive. They made the island their home. What would a person do if the sea cast them onto an island previously uninhabited?

What will stir in his heart except loneliness, depression, and fear? However, he will quickly realize that he must take care of himself and be careful with the resources available to him. Indeed, he seeks to develop the land, in one way or another, the land that saved him.

We do not need the sea to throw us onto a deserted island to populate the earth, but we need to populate hearts, before the earth, with love, compassion, and tenderness, “for the green earth does not become green except through human determination.”