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“Nature is full of teeth that come in one by one, then decay, fall out.”

Fall Nature Teeth Decay

Book:The Awful Rowing Toward God

Source: The Awful Rowing Toward God

“Nothing can be plainer, than that the motions, changes, decays, and dissolutions, which we hourly see befall natural bodies (and which is what we mean by the course of nature), cannot possibly affect an active, simple, uncompounded substance: such a being therefore is indissoluble by the force of nature, that is to say, the soul of man is naturally immortal.”

Men Mean Soul Body Courses Force Nature Natural Simple Active Substance Immortality Immortal Decay Being There Dissolution Forces Of Nature

Book:A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

Source: A Treatise Concerning the Principles of Human Knowledge

“In her novel Regeneration, Pat Barker writes of a doctor who 'knew only too well how often the early stages of change or cure may mimic deterioration. Cut a chrysalis open, and you will find a rotting caterpillar. What you will never find is that mythical creature, half caterpillar, half butterfly, a fit emblem of the human soul, for those whose cast of mind leads them to seek such emblems. No, the process of transformation consists almost entirely of decay.”

Source: A Field Guide to Getting Lost

“Earth knows no desolation. She smells regeneration in the moist breath of decay.”

Knows Earth Death Nature Dying Garden Breaths Smell Decay Scent Impermanence Desolation Regeneration Fertilizer Garden Love Compost

Book:Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads

Source: Modern Love and Poems of the English Roadside: With Poems and Ballads