Quotes About Successions

I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

naïve empiricism—successions of anecdotes selected to fit a story do not constitute evidence. Anyone

How great, I said to myself then, repeating the words of Vincent Belovacensis, the humblest beauty of this world, and how pleasing to the eye of reason the consideration of not only the modes and numbers and orders of things, so decorously established for the whole universe, but also the cycle of times that constantly unravel through successions and lapses, marked by the death of what has been born.

I have said more than once, that I hold space to be something purely relative, as time; an order of coexistences, as time is an order of successions.

The monotony of a long heroic poem may often be pleasantly relieved by judicious interruptions in the perfect successions of rhymes, just as the metre may sometimes be adorned with occasional triplets and Alexandrines.

Mycelium steers the course of ecosystems by favoring successions of species. Ultimately, mycelium prepares its immediate environment for its benefit by growing ecosystems that fuel its food chains.