Bare Ground

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“To feed were best at home;
From thence, the sauce to meat is ceremony;
Meeting were bare without it.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“Every act of the man inscribes itself in the memories of his fellows, and in his own manners and face. The air is full of sounds; the sky, of tokens; the ground is all memoranda and signatures; and every object covered over with hints, which speak to the intelligent.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson (1803–1882)