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This is a book that I will come back to again. There are too many passages that I’d highlighted to get into here. I would recommend this one to anyone.

The prose here is beautiful. I aspire to read the french language version one day.

I’m really enjoying these lessons.

I’m enjoying working through this classic Spanish language lesson book. On to chapter 4.

"The joy of living, I say, was summed up for me in the remembered sensation of that first burning and aromatic swallow, that mixture of milk and coffee and bread by which men hold communion with tranquil pastures, exotic plantations, and golden harvests, communion with the earth."

It's finally time to read this classic.

This is a good read, I do enjoy it at times. But it is repeating the same things over and over and after 210 pages, I am calling it. Going to move on to something else. The end.

“Some day we will have tiny walkie-talkies no bigger than packs of cigarettes, with a range of thousands of miles. Then pals could communicate without going through the ears of others…”

Oh so very close, yet so far…

I liked this passage Moitessier shares about the friendship he formed with the shearwater birds:

I wanted to caress them, at least to try. But I did not dare; maybe it was too soon. With a clumsy and premature gesture I risked breaking something very fragile. Wait a while longer, don't rush things, don't force things. Wait until the waves of friendship, made of invisible vibrations, reach their full maturity. You can spoil everything, trying to go faster than nature.

Still as relevant today as it was when it first came out in 1980, Cosmos is a book that I'd recommend to anyone and everyone. Watching the original series after you read each chapter is an addition way to enjoy this incredible work by Carl Sagan.

This is one of those books that I recommend everyone take a read through. It’s one that I’m sure I will re-read again and again. Five stars.