I can't stop quoting. No way. So much things that need to be written down - just for myself. To remember.

"The eye creates the horizon,
The ear invents the wind,
The hand reaching out from a parka sleeve
By touch demands that the touched thing be."

Gwendolyn MacEwan, Afterworlds

(He writes about the Franklin expedition, telling Franklin that it was not geography that created the passage he explored but Franklin himself. Therefore, the reason the whole expedition failed was not lead poisoning or scurvy but a mistake he made in thinking his way through the North.)