“All things belonging to the earth will never change-the leaf, the blade, the flower, the wind that cries and sleeps and wakes again, the trees whose stiff arms clash and tremble in the dark, and the dust of lovers long since buried in the earth-all things from the earth to seasons, all things that lapse and change and come again upon the earth-these things will always be the same, they come up from the earth, they go back into the earth. Only the earth endures forever"