barometry

“ How much larger your life would be if your self could become smaller in it; if you could really look at other men with common curiosity and pleasure; if you could see them walking as they are in their sunny selfishness and their virile indifference! You would begin to be interested in them because they were not interested in you. You would break out of this tiny and tawdry theatre in which your own little plot is always being played, and you would find yourself under a freer sky, in a street full of splendid strangers. ”

“ For to be free is not merely to cast off one’s chains, but to live in a way that respects and enhances the freedom of others. ”

“ A bird doesn’t sing because it has an answer, it sings because it has a song. ”

“ I will be a tree climber.
I will not know gravity,
I will not know gravity. ”