Bernard Hopkins Quotes

The trees are coming into leaf Like something almost being said; The recent buds relax and spread, Their greenness is a kind of grief. Is it that they are born again And we grow old? No, they die too. Their yearly trick of looking new Is written down in rings of grain. Yet still the unresting castles thresh In fullgrown thickness every May. Last year is dead, they seem to say, Begin afresh, afresh, afresh.

Every new beginning comes from some other beginning's end.

I think the tree is an element of regeneration which in itself is a concept of time.

Thus times do shift, each thing his turn does hold; New things succeed, as former things grow old.

In nature, there is less death and destruction than death and transmutation.

Destroying is a necessary function in life. Everything has its season, and all things eventually lose their effectiveness and die.

We will burn the old grass and the new will grow.

There's always going to be a moment where it's out with the old, and in with the new. That's probably going to happen to me one day.

Nature obliges everything to change about. One thing crumbles and falls in the weakness of age; Another grows in its place from a negligible start. So time alters the whole nature of the world And earth passes from one state to another.

You must have something new in a landscape as well as something old, something that's dying and something that's being born.

Setting is preliminary to brighter rising; decay is a process of advancement; death is the condition of higher and more fruitful life.

If Winter comes, can Spring be far behind?

The death of what's dead is the birth of what's living.

Too late for fruit, too soon for flowers.

Nothing ever quite dies, it just comes back in a different form.

Nature is infinitely creative. It is always producing the possibility of new beginnings.

Nature abhors the old.

Everything is born from change. ...there is nothing nature loves more that to alter what exists and make new things like it. All that exists is the seed of what will emerge from it. You think the only seeds are the one that make plants and children? Go deeper.

Life depends on change, and renewal.

Where unwilling dies the rose; buds the new another year.

Each new season grows from the leftovers from the past. That is the essence of change, and change is the basic law.

I believe that change keeps you young.

What the caterpillar calls the end of the world the master calls a butterfly.

We all have to change with the times... it keeps you younger; it's a new challenge.

A beginning is the end of something, always.