"Nature has an economy, an elegance, a style, that if we could but emulate it we could rise out of the rubble we are making out of the planet"

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In order to dream so far, is it enough to read? Isn't it necessary to write? Write as in our schoolboy past, in those days when, as Bonnoure says, the letters wrote themselves one by one, either in their gibbosity or else in their pretentious elegance? In those days, spelling was a drama, our drama of culture at work in the interior of a word.

— Gaston Bachelard