Yet man dies not whilst the world, at once his mother and his monument, remains. His name is lost, indeed, but the breath he breathed still stirs the pine-tops on the mountains, the sound of the words he spoke yet echoes on through space; the thoughts his brain gave birth to we have inherited to-day; his passions are our cause of life; the joys and sorrows that he knew are our familiar friends--the end from which he fled aghast will surely overtake us also! Truly the universe is full of ghosts, not sheeted churchyard spectres, but the inextinguishable elements of individual life, which having once been, can never die, though they blend and change, and change again for ever. H. Rider Haggard
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These words were spoken by Percy Bysshe Shelley, in his poem “The Sensitive Plant,” in 1821. Shelley was a romantic poet who was inspired by William Wordsworth’s views on nature. He believed that the universe was alive and that the Earth is an organic being. Shelley despised death, yet he had a profound respect for nature, which he saw as being eternal. He saw human beings as being part of nature.

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