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A rolling stone gathers no moss. — Publilius Syrus · 43 BCA man who lives everywhere lives nowhere. — Martial · 103We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it. — Lawrence Durrell · 1957A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image. — Joan Didion · 1979Rootedness3 quotes
A rolling stone gathers no moss. — Publilius Syrus · 43 BCA man who lives everywhere lives nowhere. — Martial · 103A place belongs forever to whoever claims it hardest, remembers it most obsessively, wrenches it from itself, shapes it, renders it, loves it so radically that he remakes it in his image. — Joan Didion · 1979Citizens of the world1 quote
A man who lives everywhere lives nowhere. — Martial · 103Man and nature1 quote
We are the children of our landscape; it dictates behavior and even thought in the measure to which we are responsive to it. — Lawrence Durrell · 1957Wandering1 quote
A rolling stone gathers no moss. — Publilius Syrus · 43 BC