Old Turtle: Questions of the Heart ~ by Douglas Wood, illustrated by Greg Ruth, 2017, children's picture book, 56 pages, 9/10
"It has been said that what we call evil is simply live turned backward upon itself," she murmured. "For evil is the opposite of life, the stunting and twisting of life to dark and bitter ends." (Pages are unnumbered.)
"These trees that brush the clouds did not come from nothing, nor do the clouds themselves, neither the rose nor the stone, the river or the raindrop. All the things that are come from something and someplace else that is. There is no great nothingness to claim us. Rather, in death we merely return to the source of our life."
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