A human life, i think, should be well rooted in som spot of a native land, where it may get the love of tender kinship for the face of earth, for the labors men go forth to, for the sounds and accents that haunt it, for whatever will give that early home a familiar widening of knowledge. The best introduction to astronomy is to think of the nightly heavens as a little lot of stars belonging to one`s own homestead.

George Elliot