A small brass globe with fine colored threads stretched between pins on a lavender background.

Original artwork, not a still

Henry David Thoreau

Nothing makes the earth seem so spacious as to have friends at a distance: they make the latitudes and longitudes.

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What it means

Our interpretation.

Friends far away make the world feel bigger, because they turn empty distance into a map. The latitudes and longitudes image says that people at a distance give the earth its coordinates, its sense of places worth reaching.

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