"You never enjoy the world aright, till the Sea itself flows in your veins, till you are clothed with the heavens, and crowned with the stars: and perceive yourself to be the sole heir of the whole world, and more than so, because men are in it who are evey one sole heirs as well as you."

-Thomas Traherne, Centuries of Meditation

quoted in Peter Matthiessen, The Snow Leopard (pg. 217)