‘…the concepts of “good” or “beautiful”, so essential to Western thought, are meaningless unless they are rooted to things. The first speakers of language took the raw material of their surroundings and pressed it into metaphor to suggest abstract ideas.’
From In Patagonia (1977) by the travel writer Bruce Chatwin.
Altocumulus stratiformis perlucidus duplicatus spotted at sunset over Redington Beach, Florida, US by Sylvia Alcaraz (Member 58,717).