Quotation by D.H. Lawrence

They felt the rush of the sap in the spring, they knew the wave which cannot halt, but every year throws forward the seed to begetting, and, falling back, leaves the unborn on the earth. They knew the intercourse between heaven and earth.
D.H. (David Herbert) Lawrence (1885–1930), British author. Originally published (and withdrawn) by Methuen (1915). The Rainbow, ch. 1, Penguin Books (1987).

"They" are the Brangwens.
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