Nothing which is and becomes can be or become without the simultaneous being and becoming of something else; and even the death of one product of nature is nothing but penance for an obligation which it has assumed towards all the rest of nature. Consequently, within nature there is nothing primal, nothing absolute, nothing which exists by itself.

Friedrich Wilhelm Joseph Schelling: Ideen zu einer Philosophie der Natur (1797)

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