“Who publishes the sheet-music of the winds, or the written music of water written in river-lines?”
John Muir (1838–1914) Scottish-born American naturalist and author
August 1875, page 220
John of the Mountains, 1938
“And what is so intricate, so entangling as death? Who ever got out of a winding sheet?”
No. 54, preached to the King at Whitehall, April 5, 1628
LXXX Sermons (1640)
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