The advantage of poetry over life is that poetry, if it is sharp enough, may last.

On vacation go to the most remote place on your itinerary first， bypassing the cities. You‘ll maximize the shock of otherness in the remote， and then later you’ll welcome the familiar comforts of a city on the way back.

大地赐予我们宝藏，但我们的责任是回馈多于索取。