Archived posting to the Leica Users Group, 2002/08/02
[Author Prev] [Author Next] [Thread Prev] [Thread Next] [Author Index] [Topic Index] [Home] [Search]Hi Rich: > > Its the country that stimulates the mind! :-) Well, I think that the denizens of the École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, and even Voltaire, would have disagreed with you. It was thought that cities being the centers of learning, commerce and research/development, stimulated human intellectual development... that there was little to stimulate thought in the countryside. The country might inspire, but it would never stimulate. Voltaire had his utopian thoughts about nature being so important but his idea of nature was well manicured gardens, etc., and not the forest as in Princeton and Ayer and other areas in the wilds of Massachusetts. But then again, they couldn't possibly have envisioned the internet, because of which you could just as easily be in the next office to me as out there in the "woods." See you on Monday. Jim - http://www.hemenway.com - -- To unsubscribe, see http://mejac.palo-alto.ca.us/leica-users/unsub.html