"A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years.……" — Anthony de Mello

"A prisoner lived in solitary confinement for years. He saw and spoke to no one and his meals were served through an opening in the wall. One day an ant came into his cell. The man contemplated it in fascination as it crawled around the room. He held it in the palm of his hand the better to observe it, gave it a grain or two, and kept it under his tin cup at night. One day it suddenly struck him that it had taken him ten long years of solitary confinement to open his eyes to the loveliness of an ant."

— Anthony de Mello

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A bit of mould is a pleiad of flowers; a nebula is an ant-hill of stars. — Victor Hugo
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It's humbling to realise that the developmental gulf between a miniscule ant colony and our modern human civilisation is only… — Michio Kaku
He was in love with life as an ant on a summer blade of grass. — Ben Hecht
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