The idea is to have global standards. There is so much travel that if you just had a regional standard, it would probably ultimately have to be changed. – Gijs de Vries

Through the years, a man peoples a space with images of provinces, kingdoms, mountains, bays, ships, islands, fishes, rooms, tools, stars, horses and people. Shortly before his death, he discovers that the patient labyrinth of lines traces the image of his own face. – Jorge Luis Borges

Travel in all the four quarters of the earth, yet you will find nothing anywhere. Whatever there is, is only here. – Ramakrishna