"One cannot collect all the beautiful shells on the beach. One can collect only few, and they are more beautiful if they are few. One moon shell is more impressive than three...Gradually one...keeps just the perfect specimen, not necessarily a rare shell, but a perfect one of its kind. One sees it apart by itself, ringed around by space-like the island. For it is only framed in space that beauty blooms. Only in space are events and objects and people unique and significant and therefore beautiful."
Anne Morrow Lindberg in Gift from the Sea