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“Sometimes a mortal feels in himself Nature – not his Father but his Mother stirs within him, and he becomes immortal with her immortality. From time to time she claims kinship with us, and some globule from her veins steals up into our own.”
~ Henry David Thoreau, 1817-1862
“Man is nothing else than the narrow & perilous bridge between nature & spirit. His innermost destiny drives him on to the spirit. His innermost longing draws him back to nature, the mother. Between the two forces his life hangs tremulous & irresolute.”
~ Hermann Hesse, 1877-1962