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)

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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

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)

O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warbl’st at eve, when all the woods are still.

John Milton · Lycidas, Sonnet. To the Nightingale [c. 1637]

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

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

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

“O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warbl’st at eve, when all the woods are still.”

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

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

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

O nightingale, that on yon bloomy spray Warbl’st at eve, when all the woods are still.