Two Quotes

How conscious is this echo?

What profit hath a man of all his labour which he taketh under the sun? One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.

(Ecclesiastes 1:3–4)

How fleeting are the wishes and efforts of man! how short his time! and consequently how poor will his products be, compared with those accumulated by nature during whole geological periods.

(Darwin, Origin, p. 84).