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“Everything you cherish Throws you over in the end Thorns will grab your ankles From the gardens that you tend.”

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Robert Hunter is a renowned American lyricist, born on June 23, 1941. His works are known for their profound emotions and rich imagination, contributing significantly to the American rock music scene. more

“Our blessed Savior chose the Garden for his Oratory, and dying, for the place of his Sepulchre; and we do avouch for many weighty causes, that there are none more fit to bury our dead in than in our Gardens and Groves, where our Beds may be decked with verdant and fragrant flowers, Trees and Perennial Plants, the most natural and instructive Hieroglyphics of our expected Resurrection and Immortality.”

May Death Religion Causes Natural Tree Dying Flower Fit Bed Garden Blessed Plant Expected Immortality Savior Resurrection Impermanence Grove Oratory Hieroglyphics Fragrant Flowers

Author:John Evelyn

“Nothing is right and nothing is just; We sow in ashes and reap in dust.”

Death Justice Dying Dust Ashes Reap Impermanence

Book:Collected Verses

Source: Collected Verses

“Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death - no death, but only change and innovation; what we men call birth is but a different new beginning; death is but to cease to be the same. Perhaps this may have moved to that, and that to this, yet still the sum of things remains the same.”

Men May Stills Different Form Death Dying Creation Birth Shapes Innovation Remains Moved Cease New Beginnings Assured Inventor Impermanence Great Inventors

Book:Metamorphoses

Source: Metamorphoses

“The truth is that everything causes everything else. We do not speak therefore of one thing causing another. There are no secrets. It's just we thought they said dead when they said bread.”

Said Death Justice Secret Dying Food Eating Cooking Bread They Said Impermanence

Author:John Cage

“In the garden the door is always open into the "holy" - growth, birth, death. Every flower holds the whole mystery in its short cycle, and in the garden we are never far away from death, the fertilizing, good, creative death.”

Whole Death Growth Creativity Creative Doors Mystery Dying Flower Birth Holy Garden Cycles Far Away Impermanence

Book:From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

Source: From May Sarton's well: writings of May Sarton

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