“Death, like birth, is one of nature's mysteries, the combining of primal elements and dissolving of the same into the same.” MysteryBirthElementsPrimalCombiningDissolving Book:The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations Source: The Emperor's Handbook: A New Translation of The Meditations
“Ah! from the soul itself must issue forth A light, a glory, a fair luminous cloud Enveloping the Earth And from the soul itself must there be sent A sweet and potent voice, of its own birth Of all sweet sounds the life and element!” SoulLightEarthSoundVoiceIssuesSweetBirthElementsGloryFairsCloudsLuminous Author:Samuel Taylor Coleridge
“For women, all women, whatever our sexuality, it's crucial to our health that we are able to separate sexuality from reproduction. I mean whether or not we can control when we give birth is the biggest element in our health, our education, our economic welfare, our life expectancy, everything.” GivingMeanAbleOur LivesEconomicBirthElementsSexualityWelfareCrucialReproductionExpectancyLife Expectancy Author:Gloria Steinem
“It is this earth that, like a kind mother, receives us at our birth, and sustains us when born; it is this alone, of all the elements around us, that is never found an enemy of man.” MenKindEarthMotherFoundBornEnemyBirthElements Author:Pliny the Elder
“If a birth is the fall-out from the explosion caused by the union of two unstable elements, then perhaps a half-life is all we can expect.” IfsTwoLife IsFallHalfBirthElementsUnionsExplosionsUnstableHalf Life Book:The Moor's last sigh Source: The Moor's last sigh