Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.

Robert Burns · First Epistle to J. Lapraik (1786), st. 13

The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.

Robert Burns · Tam o’ Shanter

The best laid schemes o’ mice and men Gang aft a-gley.

Robert Burns · To a Mouse, st. 7

O my Luve is like a red, red rose, that's newly sprung in June.

Robert Burns · The source reads: “O my Luve's like a red, red rose, / That's newly sprung in June:” · The opening of "A Red, Red Rose," the best known lines in Scots verse, written in 1794 to an old tune; Luve is love.

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All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.

Alexander Pope · An Essay on Man, I

There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.

Sylvia Earle · Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans (1995)

The world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.

Wendell Berry · The source reads: “I am speaking of the life of a man who knows that the world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.” · The Unforeseen Wilderness (1971)

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“Gie me ae spark o’ Nature’s fire, That’s a’ the learning I desire.”

“The mirth and fun grew fast and furious.”

“The best laid schemes o’ mice and men Gang aft a-gley.”

“O my Luve is like a red, red rose, that's newly sprung in June.”

“All are but parts of one stupendous whole, Whose body Nature is, and God the soul.”

“There’s plenty of water in the universe without life, but nowhere is there life without water.”

“The world is not given by his fathers, but borrowed from his children.”