• Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.

    Georg C. Lichtenberg: Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me.
    "Aphorisms". Book by Georg Christoph Lichtenberg. Notebook B 37, 1799.