Benjamin/origin

Famous quotes containing the words benjamin and/or origin:

    Living substance conquers the frenzy of destruction only in the ecstasy of procreation.
    —Walter Benjamin (1892–1940)

    Though I do not believe that a plant will spring up where no seed has been, I have great faith in a seed,—a, to me, equally mysterious origin for it.
    Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)