“The living ocean drives planetary chemistry, governs climate and weather, and otherwise provides the cornerstone of the life-support system for all creatures on our planet, from deep-sea starfish to desert sagebrush. That's why the ocean matters. If the sea is sick, we'll feel it. If it dies, we die. Our future and the state of the oceans are one.” IfsFeelsMatterStatesDiesSupportSeaPlanetsCreaturesOceanSickClimateWeatherDesertChemistryOur FutureOur PlanetCornerstonesSupport SystemsDeep SeaStarfish Book:Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans Source: Sea Change: A Message of the Oceans
“We are creatures that are designed for continual challenge. We must grow or we begin to die....So just standing still isn't really an option. We have to move on. If not, disturbances will come.” IfsStillsMovingDiesGrowsChallengesCreaturesStandingDisturbanceStanding Still Author:B.K.S. Iyengar
“Eternal is the fact that the human creature born in Ireland and brought up in its air is Irish. I have lived for twenty years in Ireland and for seventy-two in England; but the twenty came first and in Britain I am still a foreigner and shall die one.” YearsFirstsHumansStillsTwoFactsDiesBornAirCreaturesEternalEnglandTwentiesBritainIrelandSeventiesForeignersBeing IrishIreland And The Irish Author:George Bernard Shaw
“What is honor, and riches, and the favor of creatures - so long as I lack the favor of God, the pardon of my sins, a saving interest in Christ, and the hope of glory! O Lord, give me these, or I die! Give me these, or else I shall eternally die!” GivingLongDiesInterestChristSinLordHonorCreaturesGloryGive MeRichesFavorsSavingPardonFavor Of God Author:Thomas Brooks
“We can each sit and wait to die, from the very day of our births. Those of us who do not do so, choose to ask - and to answer - the two questions that define every conscious creature: What do I want? and What will I do to get it? Which are, finally, only one question: What is my will? Caine teaches us that the answer is always found within our own experience; our lives provide the structure of the question, and a properly phrased question contains its own answer.” WantTwoDiesAsksFoundWaitingAnswersTeachOur LivesBirthCreaturesConsciousStructure Author:Matthew Woodring Stover
“The time is approaching when we shall consider it abhorrent to our civilization to allow a human being to die in prolonged agony which we should mercifully end in any other creature.” ShouldHumansEndsDiesHuman BeingsCivilizationCreaturesAgonyAbhorrent Book:Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated) Source: Delphi Complete Works of Charlotte Perkins Gilman (Illustrated)
“Pain and Oblivion make mankind afraid to die; but all creatures are afraid of the one, none but mankind afraid of the other.” PainDiesMankindCreaturesOblivion Author:Margaret Cavendish
“In giving our daughter life, her father and I had also given her death, something I hadn't realized until that new creature flailed her arms in what was now infinite space. We had given her disease and speeding cars and flying cornices: once out of the fortress that had been myself, she would never be safe again ... We disappoint our kids and they disappoint us, and sometimes they grow up into people we don't like very much. We go on loving, though what we love may be more memory than actuality. And until the day we die we fear the phone that rings in the middle of the night.” PeopleGivingMaySometimesKidsNightDiesFatherGivenGrowsMemoriesSpaceGrowing UpMiddleCarArmsGoes OnSafeCreaturesDiseaseDaughterInfinitePhonesRingsFlyingDisappointMiddle Of The NightOur DaughterActualityFortressesSpeedingInfinite SpaceSpeeding Cars Author:Mary Cantwell
“The inferior creatures groan under your cruelties. You hunt them for your pleasure, and overwork them for your covetousness, and kill them for your gluttony, and set them to fight one with another till they die, and count it a sport and a pleasure to behold them worry one another.” DiesFightingSportsPleasureWorryCreaturesCrueltyInferiorsHuntsGluttonyCovetousnessOverwork Author:Tom Tryon
“The embodied self is the same person who woke to the world in a burst of visonary immediacy, who soon found that he was not the center of that world but on the contrary, a dependent and even hapless creature, and who then discovered that he was doomed to die” WorldPersonsSelfDiesFoundCreaturesContraryDependentDoomedImmediacy Author:Roberto Unger
“Man only of all earthly creatures, asks, Can the dead die forever? - and the instinct that urges the question is God's answer to man, for no instinct is given in vain.” MenArtDeathDiesAsksGivenAnswersForeverCreaturesInstinctVainUrges Author:Edward Bulwer-Lytton, 1st Baron Lytton