„I died as a mineral and became a plant,I died as plant and rose to animal,I died as animal and I was Man.Why should I fear? When was I less by dying?“

— Rumi

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„The human animal is a beast that dies but the fact that he’s dying don’t give him pity for others.“
— Tennessee Williams
„the world is better withoutthem.only the plants and the animals aretrue comrades.I drink to them and withthem.“
— Charles Bukowski
„I subdue matter and force it to become my mind's good medium. I rejoice in plants, in animals, in man and in gods, as though they were my children. I feel all the universe nestling about me and following me as though it were my own body.“
— Nikos Kazantzakis
„Better to be an animal than a man, an insect than an animal, a plant than an insect, and so on. Salvation? Whatever diminishes the kingdom of consciousness and compromises its supremacy.“
— Emil M. Cioran