retransforms

Updated: May 12, 2025

Nature, so far as we can discern, without passion and without intention, forms, transforms, and retransforms forever. She neither weeps nor rejoices. She produces man without purpose, and obliterates him without regret. She knows no distinction between the beneficial and the hurtful. Poison and nutrition, pain and joy, life and death, smiles and tears are alike to her.

Robert Green Ingersoll - Lectures of Col. R. G. Ingersoll, Volume I: Including His Answers to the Clergy,: His Oration at His Brother's Grave, Etc., Etc.