If you want to go down deep you do not need to travel far; indeed, you don't have to leave your most immediate and familiar surroundings. Ludwig Wittgenstein
I suppose we would be monsters to a Venusian. [...] We depicted the outer space creature as something strange rather than as a monster. He was from a strange place and therefore out of place in our familiar surroundings. Ray Harryhausen
The little world of childhood with its familiar surroundings is a model of the greater world. Carl Jung