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“Denial helps us to pace our feelings of grief. There is a grace in denial. It is nature's way of letting in only as much as we can handle.”

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Elisabeth Kubler-Ross

Elisabeth Kübler-Ross was a Swiss-born American psychiatrist renowned for her contributions to hospice care and death studies. Her book 'On Death and Dying' had a profound impact on global hospice care practices. more

“When one speaks of humanity, the idea is fundamental that this is something which separates and distinguishes man from nature. In reality, however, there is no such separation: "natural" qualities and those called truly "human" are inseparably grown together. Man, in his highest and noblest capacities, is wholly nature and embodies its uncanny dual character. Those of his abilities which are terrifying and considered inhuman may even be the fertile soil out of which alone all humanity can grow in impulse, deed, and work.”

Source: The Portable Nietzsche

“Zeus, the father of the Olympic Gods, turned mid-day into night, hiding the light of the dazzling Sun; and sore fear came upon men.”

Men Light Night Father Sun Air Wind Clouds Hiding Dazzling Zeus

Author:Archilochus

“The eastern light our spires touch at morning, The light that slants upon our western doors at evening, The twilight over stagnant pools at batflight, Moon light and star light, owl and moth light, Glow-worm glowlight on a grassblade. O Light Invisible, we worship Thee!”

Light Stars Morning Doors Moon Worship Western Invisible Evening Thee Pool Twilight Eastern Worms Owl Stagnant Moths Spires Glow Worms

Book:The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems

Source: The Poems of T. S. Eliot Volume I: Collected and Uncollected Poems

“Oh, I have walked in Kansas Through many a harvest field, And piled the sheaves of glory there And down the wild rows reeled: Each sheaf a little yellow sun, A heap of hot-rayed gold; Each binder like Creation's hand To mold suns, as of old.”

Littles Hands Sun Creation Fields Glory Gold Hot Yellow Grain Harvest Mold Kansas Binders Yellow Sun

Author:Vachel Lindsay

“My life is not my own business.”

Life Is My Own Own Business Interdependence

Author:Anthony Hopkins

“What you forget is that plants themselves want to live as much as you want them to. More.”

Want Life Growth Forget Birth Plant Rebirth

Author:Elizabeth Smart

“There is no clear distinction anywhere on the Earth's surface between living and nonliving matter. There is merely a hierarchy of intensity going from the 'material' environment of the rocks and the atmosphere to the living cells.”

Life Matter Earth Growth Clear Environment Rocks Materials Birth Surface Cells Atmosphere Distinction Intensity Rebirth Hierarchy

Book:The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth

Source: The Ages of Gaia: A Biography of Our Living Earth

“What are plants doing? What are plants all about? They serve human beings by being decorative, but what is it from its own point of view? It's using up air; it's using up energy. It's really not doing anything except being ornamental. And yet here's this whole vegetable world, cactus plants, trees, roses, tulips, and edible vegetables, like cabbages, celery, lettuce - they're all doing this dance.”

World Life Humans Whole Energy Growth Human Beings Views Air Tree Birth Rose Plant Point Of View Vegetables Rebirth Plant A Tree Cabbage Lettuce Cactus Celery

Book:The essence of Alan Watts

Source: The essence of Alan Watts

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