Tao Te Ching

“The silkworm is the most ambitious of worms. Nothing but belly and mouth, it drags inself along, eaing, soiling, eating again, a filthy pipe with two holes. then suddenly all the food turns to silk. Man is the same.”

— Nikos Kazantzakis 1883 – 1957 CE via P. A. Bien
from Report to Greco