Age Quote by Ernst Haeckel

Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There…

— Charles Lyell

From the point of view of the species, death is part of this whole process. You could say that species have evolved in such…

— David Bohm

Some philosophers have been of opinion that our immortal part acquires during this life certain habits of action or of sentiment, which become forever…

— Erasmus Darwin

Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an…

— Charles Darwin

Life appears in a vast variety and innumerable succession of individual forms, since the most salient character of the universe is just that it…

— Joseph Alexander Leighton

The mortal nature is seeking as far as is possible to be everlasting and immortal: and this is only to be attained by generation,…

— Plato

“Unlike the clonal longevity of asexual organisms, sexually reproduced plants and animals usually have briefer, individual life cycles. In short, the enormous diversity afforded…

— Richard J. Borden

No individual life is an end in itself. One can live fully only by participating fully in the succession of the generations, in death…

— Wendell Berry

Every living creature commences its existence under a form different from, and simpler than, that which it eventually attains.

— Thomas Huxley

Nothing retains its form; new shapes from old. Nature, the great inventor, ceaselessly contrives. In all creation, be assured, there is no death -…

— Ovid

After death, life reappears in a different form and with different laws. It is inscribed in the laws of the permanence of life on…

— Louis Pasteur

If Nature denies eternity to beings, it follows that their destruction is one of her laws. Now, once we observe that destruction is so…

— Marquis de Sade