Nature herself has not provided the most graceful end for her creatures. What becomes of all these birds that people the air and forest for our solacement? The sparrow seems always chipper, never infirm. We do not see their bodies lie about. Yet there is a tragedy at the end of each one of their lives. They must perish miserably; not one of them is translated. True, "not a sparrow falleth to the ground without our Heavenly Father's knowledge," but they do fall, nevertheless.
Henry David ThoreauAlways the laws of light are the same, but the modes and degrees of seeing vary.
Henry David ThoreauMost men lead lives of quiet desperation and go to the grave with the song still in them.
Henry David Thoreau