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It helped me in the air to keep my small mind contained in earthly human limits, not lost in vertiginous space and elements unknown.

— Diana Cooper

Sentiment: POSITIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

There have been few things in my life which have had a more genial effect on my mind than the possession of a piece of land.

— Harriet Martineau

To confine our attention to terrestrial matters would be to limit the human spirit.

— Stephen Hawking

I believe your atmosphere and your surroundings create a mind state for you.

— Theophilus London

In my case, having knocked around at different jobs helped me get a sense of what the world is actually like and also helped me get out of a cocoon.

— Mitch Kapor

God gave me the strength to see, and breathe, and talk.

— Leon Spinks

It helped me when I decided that we're on this planet to learn to live together and get along.

— Greta Scacchi

✗Opposing Perspectives

I think that being in an extreme natural setting, and letting the natural world and what it's doing permeate your thoughts, is super-interesting and super-important.

— Lia Ices

It took me way beyond what I knew, into places of which I was totally scared, but as I became less frightened, I welcomed new ways of thinking and approaching something. It made me an infinitely richer person, and I think a better musician.

— Yo-Yo Ma

I found that dance, music, and literature is how I made sense of the world... it pushed me to think of things bigger than life's daily routines... to think beyond what is immediate or convenient.

— Mikhail Baryshnikov

My habit of glorifying things far away in space and time, also contributed to my social isolation.

— Luke Ford