草木得常理 cǎo mù de cháng lǐ

cǎo mù de cháng lǐ phrase herbs and trees are in perpetual rotation
Domain: Literary Chinese 文言文
Notes: Quote: from the poem 形影神 “Substance, Shadow, and Spirit” by 陶淵明 Tao Yuanming 365-427 in Scroll 2 of 陶淵明集 Tao Yuanming Collected Poems (Amies 2021 tr.; see also tr. by Waley 1919, p. 106)