An inhabited garden...

The world is so empty if one thinks only

of mountains, rivers and cities;

But to know someone here and there

who thinks and feels with us,

And who, though distant, is close to us in spirit,

This makes the earth for us an inhabited garden.

~Wolfgang von Goethe in “Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahr.”

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Amended on 19 October, 2000