Ryszard Kapuscinski: Silva rerum
August 15th, 2012 — 2:39am
The literature of personal … no, that’s not right. You know, sometimes, in describing what I do, I resort to the Latin phrase silva rerum: the forest of things. That’s my subject: the forest of things, as I’ve seen it, living and travelling in it. To capture the world, you have to penetrate it as completely as possible.
- Ryszard Kapuscinski