Life Quote by Edna St. Vincent Millay

“mammals and birds can live longer, if they don’t get eaten”

— Peter Godfrey-Smith

Every creature is better alive than dead, men and moose and pine trees, and he who understands it aright will rather preserve its life…

— Henry David Thoreau

“Men live their lives trapped in an eternal present, between the mists of memory and the sea of shadow that is all we know…

— George R.R. Martin

Now I'm no biologist, but it seems to make a lot of sense that slow lives, as well as being enjoyable, are long lives.…

— Tom Hodgkinson

As leaves on the trees, such is the life of man.

— Homer

“They’re in love. Like black vultures. And termites. Yes, turtle doves and swans aren’t the only animals that mate for life. Ugly, toilet-licking termites…

— Jandy Nelson

“…Homo sapiens doesn’t seem able to cut himself off at the supply end. He’s one of the few species that doesn’t limit reproduction in…

— Margaret Atwood

Beware the machinery of longevity. When a man's life is over the decent thing is for him to die. The forest does not withhold…

— Wendell Berry

It is beter to live 50 years as a tiger rather than live 100 years as a chicken

— Edgerrin James

So long as men can breathe, or eyes can see, So long lives this, and this gives life to thee.

— William Shakespeare

There is nothing in which the birds differ more from man than the way in which they can build and yet leave a landscape…

— Robert Wilson Lynd

All the creatures living on Earth behave more or less the same way!

— Mehmet Murat Ildan