Editing Wind, Sand and Stars (section)

== Tributes ==
The charity [[Terre des hommes]] took its name from this book in 1959.  The charitable international federation of humanitarian societies concentrates on children's rights, and is based in [[Lausanne, Switzerland]].

The book's title was subsequently used [[Expo 67#Montebello conference produces theme|to create the central theme]] ("''Terre des Hommes'' – Man and His World") of the most successful world's fair of the 20th century, [[Expo 67]], in [[Montreal, Quebec]], Canada. In 1963, a group of prominent Canadians met for three days at the [[Château Montebello|Seigneury Club]] in [[Montebello, Quebec]].<ref>Berton, p. 258</ref> In an introduction to the Expo 67 Corporation's book, also entitled "''Terre des Hommes''/Man and His World", [[Gabrielle Roy]] wrote:<ref>Roy, G., pp. 20–22</ref>

{{quotation|In ''Terre des Hommes'', his haunting book, so filled with dreams and hopes for the future, Antoine de Saint-Exupéry writes of how deeply moved he was when, flying for the first time by night alone over Argentina, he happened to notice a few flickering lights scattered below him across an almost empty plain.  They "twinkled here and there, alone like stars."
.... In truth, being made aware of our own solitude can give us insight into the solitude of others. It can even cause us to gravitate towards one another as if to lessen our distress.  Without this inevitable solitude, would there be any fusion at all, any tenderness between human beings.
Moved as he was by a heightened awareness of the solitude of all creation and by the human need for solidarity, Saint-Exupéry found a phrase to express his anguish and his hope that was as simple as it was rich in meaning; and because that phrase was chosen many years later to be the governing idea of Expo 67, a group of people from all walks of life was invited by the Corporation to reflect upon it and to see how it could be given tangible form.|}}

[[Pascal Gélinas]] & [[Pierre Harel]]'s short film ''Taire des hommes'' (meaning ''to silence men'') has a title homophonic to the book's title, but is instead about the censorship and repression at the riot of the national holiday of June 24, 1968, in downtown Montréal, one day before the federal election.