Alive Quote by Lennart Nilsson

I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and…

— George Bentham

Throw a little glitter on a dead flower and it'll mask the decay.

— Adore Delano

We divorced ourselves from the materials of the earth, the rock, the wood, the iron ore; we looked to new materials which were cooked…

— Norman Mailer

Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows.

— Mortimer Wheeler

Every year tens of thousands of animals suffer and die in laboratory tests of cosmetics and household products...despite the fact that the test results…

— Woody Harrelson

“... gold mould as if blisters of the body can become precious metals.”

— Ali Smith

Any relic of the dead is precious, if they were valued living.

— Emily Bronte

“Laboratory scientists use formaldehyde as a disinfectant or preservative. They don't fucking drink it.”

— Rory Freedman

“In recent years, a green burial movement has protested formaldehyde, which oxidizes to formic acid, the toxic in fire ants and bee stingers, as…

— Alan Weisman

Nature in America has always been suspect, on the defensive, cannibalized by progress. In America, every specimen becomes a relic.

— Susan Sontag

Dead is when the chemists take over the subject.

— Arthur Leonard Schawlow

“Arsenic turned out to work even better, and was cheaper. Until it was banned in the 1890s, it was used widely, and heavy arsenic…

— Alan Weisman