In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird, — all is there for itself. Only because we think that all things have a relation to us, do they appear justifiable or otherwise.


Forty Thousand Quotations: Prose and Poetical (1917)

Berthold Auerbach Quotes

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird, — all is there for...

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird, — all is there for...

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird, — all is there for...

In Nature there is no dirt, everything is in the right condition; the swamp and the worm, as well as the grass and the bird, — all is there for...