Benton Anderson

“Nature then becomes to him the measure of his attainments. So much of nature as he is ignorant of, so much of his own mind does he not yet possess. And, in fine, the ancient precept, “Know thyself,” and the modern precept, “Study nature,” become at last one maxim.”
― Ralph Waldo Emerson, Self-Reliance and Other Essays

“I could no longer tell where I stopped and Eliza began, or where Eliza and I stopped and the Universe began.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slapstick