“Every death even the cruellest death
drowns in the total indifference of Nature
Nature herself would watch unmoved
if we destroyed the entire human race
I hate Nature
this passionless spectator this unbreakable iceberg-face
that can bear everything
this goads us to greater and greater acts”

“I support the protection of life from conception to natural death. But a natural death for a murderer is a death on the gallows.”

“Chastity is a monkish and evangelical superstition, a greater foe to natural temperance even than unintellectual sensuality; it strikes at the root of all domestic happiness, and consigns more than half the human race to misery.”

“Even if smog were a risk to human life, we must remember that life in nature, without technology, is wholesale death.”

“Death is part of nature, but even nature does not seem to be free from the laws of decay.”

“Think not disdainfully of death, but look on it with favor; for even death is one of the things that Nature wills.”

“Death is a stage in human progress, to be passed as we would pass from childhood to youth, or from youth to manhood, and with the same consciousness of an everlasting nature.”

“Sometimes the strength of motherhood is greater than natural laws.”

“Sometimes the gift of an inquisitive nature to the young can be greater than that of the wisdom which comes of age.”

“the first quality of an honest man is contempt for religion, which would have us afraid of the most natural thing in the world, which is death; and would have us hate the one beautiful thing destiny has given us, which is life.”