“When the fruit is ripe, it falls. When the fruit is despatched, the leaf falls. The circuit of the waters is mere falling. The walking of man and all animals is a falling forward. All our manual labor and works of strength, as prying, splitting, digging, rowing and so forth, are done by dint and continual falling, and the globe, earth, moon, comet, sun, star, fall forever and ever.”
—Ralph Waldo Emerson, Essays