Some species increase, others diminish, and in a short space the generations of living creatures are changed and, like runners, pass on the torch of life.
Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.
No fact is so simple that it is not harder to believe than to doubt at the first presentation. Equally, there is nothing so mighty or so marvelous that the wonder it evokes does not tend to diminish in time.
![Lucretius Quote - Deprived of pain, and also deprived of danger, able to do what it wants, [Nature] does not need us, nor understands our deserts, and it cannot be angry.](https://minimalistquotes.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/deprived-of-pain-and-also-deprived-of-danger-able--683x1024.jpg)
