Quotation by

Georg C. Lichtenberg

Here take back the stuff that I am, nature, knead it back into the dough of being, make of me a bush, a cloud, whatever you will, even a man, only no longer make me me.

Nature

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The speaker is asking nature to reclaim their identity and reshape it into anything else, showing a desire to lose their current self. They want to be transformed into any form of existence, even human again, as long as they are no longer the person they are now.

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