To her who gives and takes back all, to Nature, the man who is instructed and modest says, "Give what you will; take back what you will."
And he says this not proudly, but obediently, and well pleased with her.
—Marcus Aurelius, Meditations 10.14
IMAGE: Jan Sanders van Hemessen, Allegory of Nature as the Mother of Art (c. 1550)
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