The Ocean and the Milky Way

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The Ocean and the Milky Way. ©2013. Ink, watercolor, graphite on paper.

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