A civilization is a heritage of beliefs, customs, and knowledge slowly accumulated in the course of centuries, elements difficult at times to justify by logic, but justifying themselves as paths when they lead somewhere, since they open up for man his inner distance.

  • -- Antoine de Saint-Exupéry 圣埃斯库里

文明是一种信仰、习俗和知识的遗产,在几个世纪的过程中慢慢积累起来,这些元素有时很难用逻辑来证明,但当它们指向某个地方时,就会证明自己是正确的路径,因为它们为人类打开了内心的距离。

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What it values most of all is the sum total of events and the advance of civilization, which carries individuals along with it; but, indifferent to details, it cares less to have them real than noble or, rather, grand and complete.

它最看重的是所有事件和文明进步的总和,而文明进步也带来了个人;但是,对细节漠不关心,它更关心的是高尚,或者,更确切地说,宏大和完整,而不是真实的细节。

I still go to a salon where a gal does my hair, and I don't know if it's because I'm a celebrity but by the time I leave there, we are eating chicken and talking and screaming.

我仍然会去沙龙,那里有个女孩给我做头发,我不知道是不是因为我是名人,但当我离开那里的时候,我们正在吃鸡肉,聊天,尖叫。

All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress of civilization.

在世界各地,我所写的野生动物都处于严重的危险之中。它正在被我们所谓的文明进步所消灭。

My brain doesn't have enough time to play around like that. To get limber enough to have a nightmare.

我的大脑没有足够的时间像那样玩。让自己变得更灵活,做个噩梦。