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

His warmest memories were from his school years in Lycée Janson de Sailly in Paris. As Minister of Foreign Affairs Lennart Meri’s first task was to create the Ministry of Foreign Affairs. Writer and filmmaker
After a trip to the Tian Shan Mountains in Central Asia and the old Islamic centres in the Kara Kum Desert in 1958 Lennart Meri wrote his first book which met with a warm reception from the public.

Lennart Georg Meri (Estonian pronunciation: [ˈlennɑr̺t ˈɡ̥eorɡ̥ ˈmer̺i]) (29 March 1929 – 14 March 2006) was a writer film director and statesman who served as the second President of Estonia from 1992 to 2001.