I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values. (Ella Maillart)

I can see now that a concept or even a feeling makes no sense unless out of our substance we spin around it a web of references, of relationships, of values.

Ella Maillart

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