While travelling through Scotland, I found several inspiring and thought-provoking ideas that met me on the walls of museums or the very pavement of the streets I walked. Why not? Our environment can be as mind-broadening as the literature we read. Here are two ideas that both centre around legacy.
Printed on a wall of Aberdeen Art Gallery, my photo
With a hint of irony, these words about legacy and the enduring influence of ideas, stories, and values are displayed on a stone building wall – Aberdeen Art Gallery. But of course, these words have reached us because generations have considered them worth remembering, not because they were engraved in a stone monument. Ideas we remember and preserve for future people are woven into our lives.
This is an idea literally carved in stone. I took a picture of it in Inverness in front of Scotland’s largest secondhand bookshop, located impressively in a former church – Leakey’s Bookshop. In case the quality of the photo makes it difficult to read, here is what it says: “in the river of words ideas are eddies spinning downstream“. Ideas take shape when thoughts and words come together, often in not entirely understandable ways. They cause a stir, a movement and leave their mark in people’s minds.
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