“As Flitch dryly remarked when Greybeard commented on the graveyard, “Ah, they keep a-planting of ’em, but there ain’t any more of ’em growing up.””

—  Brian W. Aldiss, book Greybeard

Source: Greybeard (1964), Chapter 5 (p. 148)

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