## Metadata - Author: [[Lucretius, Don Fowler, Peta Fowler, and Ronald Melville]] - Full Title: On the Nature of the Universe - Category: #books ## Highlights - Therefore all things we see do not utterly perish Since nature makes good one thing from another, And does not suffer anything to be born Unless it is aided by another’s death. ([Location 637](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0042JU7B2&location=637)) - Time likewise does not exist by itself, But a sense follows from things themselves Of what has been done in the past, what now is present, And what in addition is to follow after. And no one has a sense of time distinct From the movement of things or from their quiet rest. ([Location 715](https://readwise.io/to_kindle?action=open&asin=B0042JU7B2&location=715))