nature dictates two things; the
complete & utter destruction
of any & all things, & rebirth

late 18th century: alteration of & per se &
‘& by itself is &,’       chanted as an aid to
learning the sign;    the ampersand is the logogram
&, representing the conjunction "and"; originating
as a ligature of the letters e & t [et]—Latin for "and"
[Wikipedia]; Other letters commonly used with: &c.
(etc.: etcetera; Latin, from et ‘&’ & cetera ‘the rest’;
neuter plural of ceterus ‘left over’), Language of origin:
               Latin; Alphabetical position: 27th
                Writing system:             Latin script
                Variations:          ﹠, ∧, ۽, ⅋, ＆, et, ,
                         'et al' from Latin et alii

a punctuation mark (,) indicating a pause between
parts of a sentence. It is also used to separate items
in a list & to mark the place of thousands in a large numeral
2. in music a minute interval or difference of pitch
3. a butterfly that has wings w/ irregular,
ragged edges & typically a white or silver
comma-shaped mark on the underside of
each hind wing.           late 16th century (originally
as a term in rhetoric denoting a group of
words shorter than a colon; see colon (1):
via Latin from Greek komma ‘piece cut off,
short clause,’                               from koptein ‘cut.’