Fact No. 51. (Published on 2/20/2005)

"a glass-soaked civilization"

We live in a glass-soaked civilization, but as for the bird in the Chinese proverb who finds it so difficult to discover air, the substance is almost invisible to us. To use a metaphor drawn from glass, it may be revealing for us to re-focus, to stop looking through glass, and let our eyes dwell on it for a moment to contemplate its wonder.

- from Glass: A World History by Alan Macfarlane and Gerry Martin

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