Bram van Velde (1895–1981) Dutch painter
2 April 1967; p. 62
1960's, Conversations with Samuel Beckett and Bram van Velde' (1965 - 1969)
“Are physical forces alone at work there, or has evolution begotten something more complex, something not unakin to what we know on Earth as life?”
Source: Mars (1896), p. 3
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