Michigan Central Depot (clockwise from top): Camilo José Vergara, Yves Marchand & Romain Meffre, Julia Reyes Taubman
"I think his fancy for referring everything to the meridian of Concord did not grow out of any ignorance or depreciation of other longitudes or latitudes, but was rather a playful expression of his conviction of the indifferency of all places, and that the best place for each is where he stands. He expressed it once in this wise:—”I think nothing is to be hoped from you, if this bit of mould under your feet is not sweeter to you to eat than any other in this world, or in any world."
Emerson on Thoreau
Paul Klee - Flora on Sand, 1927
Thomas Edison
"Have you ever noticed?—people, no matter how beautiful or desirable, invariably will, if observed closely while going about their daily business of keeping alive, begin to seem like monsters."
Donald Antrim, The Verificationist (via mythologyofblue)
"I love Henry,” said one of his friends, but I cannot like him; and as for taking his arm, I should as soon think of taking the arm of an elm-tree."
