"and thats why a tree...

"and that's why a tree will continue to be"

Ronald Knox, God in the Quad

The Complete Limerick Book (1924)

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God in the Quad

There was a young man who said "God
Must find it exceedingly odd
To think that the tree
Should continue to be
When there's no one about in the quad."

Reply:
"Dear Sir: Your astonishment's odd;
I am always about in the quad.
And that's why the tree
Will continue to be
Since observed by, Yours faithfully, God."

Ronald Knox, priest, theologian

The topic of this limerick and the following one based on George Berkeley's philosophical principle, "To be is to be perceived".

noir de mars watercolor 80x60cm

noir de mars watercolor 80x60cm

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"and that's why a tree will continue to be"

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