Day by day, men forced the forests to move further up the mountains, yielding- lower parts to farming, so they could have meadows, lakes, streams, grain fields, and rich vineyards on hills and plains, and dark bands of olives could run between, marking the divisions, spreading over hillocks, plains, and valleys, just as you now see all land divided with various fine things-men make it shine-1910 by arranging sweet orchard trees in rows, and, with fertile shrubs planted all around, keep them fenced in. He argues against fear of such deities by demonstrating, through observations and arguments, that the operations of the world can be accounted for in terms of natural phenomena, which are the result of regular. After that, they kept trying various ways of tilling pleasant fields and saw that with tender care-1900 and gentle cultivation earth would tame wild fruits. Lucretius identifies the supernatural with the notion that the deities created our world or interfere with its operations in some way. The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lu cretius Carus, translated by Rolfe Humphries. Writing to his brother 1 LUCRETIUS: THE WAY THINGS ARE. Lucretius Water, Stones, Force 31 Copy quote You alone govern the nature of things. the letter of Ciceros which we mentioned shows that he had Lucretius manuscript in his hands and much admired it.

Then from nature, too, they got the idea of setting young shoots into branches and planting new saplings in the ground through all their fields. The Way Things are: The De Rerum Natura of Titus Lucretius Carus, p.24, Indiana University Press 10 Copy quote The water hollows out the stone, not by force but drop by drop.

“But the creator of things,-1890 nature herself, was the first example of sowing seed and the start of grafting, for berries and acorns fell down from trees and, in due season, produced underneath a crowd of seedlings.

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