Dead Organic Matter

Famous quotes containing the words dead, organic and/or matter:

“If I be foiled, there is but one shamed that was never
gracious; if killed, but one dead that is willing to be so.”
—William Shakespeare (1564–1616)

“The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.”
—Novalis [Friedrich Von Hardenberg] (1772–1801)

“According to my observation, a batteau, properly manned, shoots rapids as a matter of course, which a single Indian with a canoe carries round.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)