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“Our culture is obsessed with youth because we have lost the ancient knowledge that growth never stops. We are not transient, momentary mistakes in the cosmos- evolutionary curiosities that rise like mayflies, swarm for a day, and are gone. We are players who are here to stay, and the universe was built with us in mind. We reflect it, with our deepest loves and loftiest aspirations, just as it reflects us.”

Source: The Map of Heaven: How Science, Religion, and Ordinary People Are Proving the Afterlife

“The lifetime of a human being is measured by decades, the lifetime of the Sun is a hundred million times longer. Compared to a star, we are like mayflies, fleeting ephemeral creatures who live out their lives in the course of a single day.”

Humans Courses Stars Human Beings Millions Sun Creatures Hundred Lifetime Decades Fleeting Ephemeral Mayflies

Book:Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

“The mayfly lives only one day. And sometimes it rains.”

Sometimes One Day Humorous Rain Mayflies

Book:Napalm & Silly Putty

Source: Napalm & Silly Putty

“Human consciousness arose but a minute before midnight on the geological clock. Yet we mayflies try to bend an ancient world to our purposes, ignorant perhaps of the messages buried in its long history. Let us hope that we are still in the early morning of our April day.”

Source: The Panda's Thumb: More Reflections in Natural History

“"Little magazines" are, for the most part, the mayflies of the literary world.”

World Littles Literature Magazines Mayflies

Author:Frederick Crews

“Nature is one with rapine, a harm no preacher can heal; The Mayfly is torn by the swallow, the sparrow speared by the shrike, And the whole little wood where I sit is a world of plunder and prey.”

World Littles Whole Nature Woods Harm Heal Preacher Torn Prey Sparrows Plunder Mayflies

Book:Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition

Source: Alfred, Lord Tennyson: Selected Poetry: A Broadview Anthology of British Literature Edition