3 Quotes by Robert Kaplan

What facilitates thought impoverishes imagination.

If you favor the explanation that the 'O' was devised by the Greeks without reference to their alphabet, its arbitrariness is lessened by noticing how often nature supplies us with circular hollows: from an open mouth to the faintly outlined dark of the moon; from craters to wounds. 'Skulls and seeds and all good things are round,' wrote Nabokov.

In autumn velvety shawls of maroon and sienna drape hillsides that fold down upon willow-braided streams.