Every wood grain whispers a history—our job is to listen and honor it.

The first fruit of this imagination—and the first lesson of the social science that embodies it—is the idea that the individual can understand his own experience and gauge his own fate only by locating himself within his period, that he can know his own chances in life only by becoming aware of those of all individuals in his circumstances.

我们讲述的故事塑造我们将成为的自我。

世界上充满了神奇的事物，它们耐心地等待着我们的感官变得更加敏锐。