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“Ideas, like individuals, live and die. They flourish, according to their nature, in one soil or climate and droop in another. They are the vegetation of the mental world.”

Men World Life Ideas Death Dies Individual Nature He Man Friends Climate Soil Vegetation

Book:The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937

Source: The Human Situation: The Gifford Lectures Delivered in the University of Glasgow, 1935-1937

“When logics die, The secret of the soil grows through the eye, And blood jumps in the sun; Above the waste allotments the dawn halts.”

Eye Dies Grows Nature Secret Sun Blood Waste Logic Dawn Soil Vitality Halt Through The Eyes Allotments

Book:The Poems of Dylan Thomas

Source: The Poems of Dylan Thomas

“Human nature is so well disposed towards those who are in interesting situations, that a young person, who either marries or dies, is sure of being kindly spoken of.”

Humans Wells Persons Young Dies Literature Nature Inspiring Interesting Situation Human Nature Judgment Emma Interesting Situations

Book:Emma: A Novel

Source: Emma: A Novel

“Animals have these advantages over man: they never hear the clock strike, they die without any idea of death, they have no theologians to instruct them, their last moments are not disturbed by unwelcome and unpleasant ceremonies, their funerals cost them nothing, and no one starts lawsuits over their wills.”

Men Ideas Moments Lasts Dies Nature Animal Cost Advantage Strikes Clock Pet Funeral Theologian Ceremony Disturbed Miscellaneous Lawsuit Unwelcome

Author:Voltaire

“Man is a complex being: he makes deserts bloom - and lakes die.”

“Thou know'st 'tis common; all that lives must die, Passing through nature to eternity.”

Knows Life Death Dies Nature Common Eternity Passing Passings Passing Through Father Died Mortality In Hamlet Hamlet Theme Morality In Hamlet Hamlet Death

Author:William Shakespeare

“When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm of nature doesn't work anymore, when survival is threatened by seemingly insurmountable problems, an individual life-form -- or a species -- will either die or become extinct or rise above the limitations of its condition through an evolutionary leap.”

Source: A New Earth (Oprah #61): Awakening to Your Life's Purpose

“Perennials are the ones that grow like weeds, biennials are the ones that die this year instead of next and hardy annuals are the ones that never come up at all.”

Years Dies Next Grows Nature Garden Come Up Weed Annuals Hardy

Author:Katharine Whitehorn

“If a tree dies, plant another in its place.”

“Sighing that Nature formed but one such man, and broke the die.”

Men Dies Nature Greatness Broke

Author:Lord Byron