Saturday's Quotable Traveler
May 03, 2008
"The world is only tolerable because of the empty places in it - millions of people all crowded together, fighting and struggling, but behind them, somewhere, enormous, empty places. I tell you what I think," he said, "when the world's filled up, we'll have to get hold of a star. Any star. Venus, or Mars, Get hold of it and leave it empty. Man needs an empty space somewhere for his spirit to rest in."
- Doris Lessing - British Novelist