Famous Quotes | Brute force crushes many plants....

Brute force crushes many plants. Yet the plants rise again. The Pyramids will not last a moment compared with the daisy. And before Buddha or Jesus spoke the nightingale sang, and long after the words of Jesus and Buddha are gone into oblivion the nightingale still will sing. Because it is neither preaching nor commanding nor urging. It is just singing. And in the beginning was not a Word, but a chirrup. - D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence
Attribution: D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885–1930), British author. Etruscan Places, ch. 2 (1932).

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