Thus, from the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of the higher animals, directly follows. There is grandeur in this view of life.

No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new.

The world is afflicted by death and decay. But the wise do not grieve, having realized the nature of the world.

Death belongs to life as birth does The walk is in the raising of the foot as in the laying of it down.

Strength is life, Weakness is death.

Trees are the earth's endless effort to speak to the listening heaven.