"And though recently all his living with books had put his head rather in the clouds and made him less and less interested in the world around him, now on the other hand reading the Encyclopedia, and beautiful words like Abeille, Arbre, Bois, Jardin, made him rediscover everything around him as if seeing it for the first time."
-Italo Calvino, The Baron in the Trees
Image: Isaac Eddy and James Wilson, history from 4000 BC - 1813 AD
