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We live in a finite world. Even from the highest mountain or from an airplane, our view always ends at a horizon, beyond which we cannot see. Moreover, horizons are elusive. We see them, we’re surrounded by them, we try to reach them, and when we get “there”, they have moved to somewhere else. Yet they always confront us with the challenge to find out what lies beyond; at all times humans have wondered that. And nowhere is the challenge quite as present as at the sea, where water and sky touch in that sharp horizontal line.
Beyond the horizon, behind the Sun, at the end of the rainbow, life has only begun.
Bob Dylan
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Satz, H. (2013). Horizons. In: Ultimate Horizons. The Frontiers Collection. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-41657-6_1
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