Body Quote by William Irwin Thompson

Nature is honest, we aren't; we embalm our dead.

— Ugo Betti

And nothing can we call our own but death And that small model of the barren earth Which serves as paste and cover to…

— William Shakespeare

Life would be a great deal easier if dead things had the decency to remain dead

— Anonymous

As long as we are graceful, appreciative lodgers, the earth remains healthy and wondrous.

— KT Tunstall

Earth is everybodys graveyard. Once you step into its flesh Our being began to decay.

— Louaiq8

“Left to their own devices, human bodies rot, decompose, come apart, and sink gloriously back into the earth from whence they came. Using embalming…

— Caitlin Doughty

Indians do not hinder the progress of their dead by embalming or tight coffining. When the spirit has gone they give the body back…

— Emily Carr

Humans, if nothing else, have the good sense to die.

— Markus Zusak

If we really believed that those who are gone from us were as truly alive as ourselves, we could not invest the subject with…

— Lydia M. Child

Nothing else is going to matter if we kill the earth and we kill the food and we destroy the gene pool and there…

— Rosalie Bertell

Humans may be destroying their chances for decent survival. It won't kill everybody, but it would change the world dramatically.

— Noam Chomsky

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the…

— Anonymous