Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and,

Surely a man needs a closed place wherein he may strike root and, like the seed, become. But also he needs the great Milky Way above him and the vast sea spaces, though neither stars nor ocean serve his daily needs. – Antoine de Saint-Exupéry, The Wisdom of the Sands, translated from French by St

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