That which kills life does not die; that which gives life to life does not live. This is the kind of thing it is: there’s nothing it doesn’t destroy, nothing it doesn’t complete. Its name is Peace-in-Strife. After the strife, it attains completion.
Chuang Tzu (Watson 1968, 83)
— does this not describe how the second law of thermodynamics (or of energetics) works in the world?