Dead Organic Matter

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

    “Here is the ancient floor,
    Footworn and hollowed and thin
    Here was the former door
    Where the dead feet walked in.”
    —Thomas Hardy (1840–1928)

    “And what if all of animated nature
    Be but organic Harps diversely framed,
    That tremble into thought, as o’er them sweeps
    Plastic and vast, one intellectual breeze,
    At once the Soul of each, and God of all?”
    —Samuel Taylor Coleridge (1772–1834)

    “Knowledge is invariably a matter of degree: you cannot put your finger upon even the simplest datum and say “this we know.””
    —T.S. (Thomas Stearns)