Everything that exists, yearns to live. That's what the cycle of life is all about. That's the engine that… — Terry Pratchett
Everything that exists, yearns to live. That's what the cycle of life is all about. That's the engine that drives the great biological pumps of evolution. Everything tries to inch its way up the tree, clawing or tentacling or sliming its way up to the next niche until it gets to the very top—which, on the whole, never seems to have been worth all that effort. (p. 81)
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In the Ramtop village where they dance the real Morris dance, for example, they believe that no one is finally dead until the ripples they cause in the world die away—until the clock he wound up winds down, until the wine she made has finished its ferment, until the crop they planted is harvested. The span of someone's life, they say, is only the core of their actual existence. (pp. 316-317)
There was never anything to be gained from observing what humans said to one another—language was just there to hide their thoughts. (p. 319)
He lay back and smiled. It was never too late to have a good life. (p. 311)
