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The coat of arms of the Republic of Latvia designed by Rihards Zariņš and adopted in 1921. Source: Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Coat_of_arms_of_Latvia.svg)

Country denoted for them not just a particular geographical environment known and cared for in every detail, but a cultural space alive with stories, myths, and memories. It furnished food, drink, and shelter, as well as every sort of sustenance for the mind and spirit.

—Iain McCalman, The Reef

Live Free or Die.

—The official motto of the US state of New Hampshire as coined by General John Stark

Deeper meaning resides in the fairy tales told to me in my childhood than in any truth that is taught in life.

—Friedrich Schiller

If you can’t resign yourself to leaving the past behind you, then you must recreate it.

—Louise Bourgeois