Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley

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    Life is obstinate and clings closest where it is most hated.
    —Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley (1797–1851)

    One can think of life after the fish is in the canoe.
    Hawaiian saying no. 23, ‘lelo No’Eau, collected, translated, and annotated by Mary Kawena Pukui, Bishop Museum Press, Hawaii (1983)

    I think that the leaf of a tree, the meanest insect on which we trample, are in themselves arguments more conclusive than any which can be adduced that some vast intellect animates Infinity.
    —Percy Bysshe Shelley (1792–1822)