The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second;…

Ralph Waldo Emerson
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The eye is the first circle; the horizon which it forms is the second; and throughout nature this primary figure is repeated without end. ✨ Ralph Waldo Emerson, Robert Ernest Spiller, Alfred Riggs Ferguson, Joseph Slater, Jean Ferguson Carr (1971). The Collected Works of Ralph Waldo Emerson, p.179, Harvard University Press
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