Happiness is like a butterfly, the more you chase it, the more it will evade you, but if you notice the other things around you, it will gently come … - Henry David Thoreau

When a government puts forth its strength on the side of injustice, as ours to maintain Slavery and kill the liberators of the slave, it reveals itself a merely brute force, or worse, a demoniacal force. It is the head of the Plug Uglies.

We can understand the phenomenon of death in the animal better if we first consider it in the order next below us, the vegetable.

The earth has some virtue in it; when seeds are put into it, they germinate; when turtles’ eggs, they hatch in due time. Though the mother turtle remained and brooded them, it would still nevertheless be the universal world turtle which, through her, cared for them as now. Thus the earth is the mother of all creatures.