Mike Zuber

“...one odyssey of a stone perched on a hill surrounded by colorful flowers and a grove of trees -in other words, a place like Vinci. Looking at the crowd of stones along the road below, it decided it wanted to join them. ‘What am I doing here among these plants?’ the stone asked. ‘I want to live in the company of my fellow stones.’ So it rolled down to the others. ‘After a while,’ Leonardo recounted, ‘it found itself in continual distress from the wheels of the carts, the iron hoofs of horses, and the feet of the passers-by. One rolled it over, another trod upon it. Sometimes the stone raised itself up a little as it lay covered with mud or the dung of some animal, but it was in vain that it looked up at the spot whence it come as a place of solitude and tranquil peace.’ Leonardo drew a moral: ‘This is what happens to those who leave a life of solitary contemplation and choose to dwell in cities among people full of infinite evil.”
― Leonardo DaVinci