Life Everlasting Quotes

“We deny that we are part of the feast and seek to remove ourselves from it, even though we kill and consume animals by the billions and permanently remove the life resources for many more. But not one animal is allowed to consume us, even after we are dead. Not even the worms. We need a new creation story that connects us to nature and to others, one that can give us strength-- that can make us real rather than rich. Nature, religions, and science coincide on the real: kinship with each other and with the mountains and prairies, oceans and forests.”
― Bernd Heinrich, Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death

“You can’t argue with nature. It is the primary context for living and for everything alive.”
― Bernd Heinrich, Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death

“THE FOLLOWING LATE April I found a dead bull moose about two kilometers from the site where I had left the doe. A bull moose probably weighs ten times as much as a white-tailed doe. This one looked emaciated; it had apparently died from complications of moose tick disease, a common”
― Bernd Heinrich, Life Everlasting: The Animal Way of Death