Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin Quotes

Life eats life to live.

And there's no getting around the fact that all life lives at the expense of another life.

Those who live, live off the dead.

Life feeds on life... feeds on life feeds on life... this is neccesary... this is necessary life feeds on life... feeds on life

Unfortunately, most people never observe the natural cycle of birth and death. They do not realize that for one living thing to survive, another living thing must die.

Buzzards got to eat, same as the worms.

Pick a flower on Earth and you move the farthest star.

The sun is the most important thing in everybody's life, whether you're a plant, an animal or a fish, and we take it for granted.

Our life is made by the death of others.

Every thread of creation is held in position by still other strands of things living.

Perhaps the whole world is actually a banquet, to which every living thing is invited. First you come as guests: then eventually you're on the menu.

The whole of nature, as has been said, is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and in the passive.

Frogs eat Butterflies, Snakes eat Frogs, Hogs eat Snakes, Men eat Hogs.

So all life is a great chain, the nature of which is known whenever we are shown a link of it.

Creation is all things and us. It is us in relationship with all things. All things, the ones we see and the ones we do not; the whirling galaxies and the wild suns, the black holes and the microorganisms, the trees and the stars, the fish and the whales - the molten lava and the towering snow-capped mountains, the children we give birth to and their children, and theirs, and theirs, and theirs.

The aim of life was meat. Life itself was meat. Life lived on life. There were the eaters and the eaten.

Consumption is also immediately production, just as in nature the consumption of the elements and chemical substances is the production of the plant.

Your worm is your only emperor for diet; we fat all creatures else to fat us, and we fat ourselves for maggots.

The whole of nature is a conjugation of the verb to eat, in the active and passive.

Nature clasps all her creatures in a universal embrace; there is not one of them which she has not plainly furnished with all means necessary to the conservation of its being.

A man may fish with the worm that hath eat of a king, and eat of the fish that hath fed of that worm

Marriage is the clue to human life, but there is no marriage apart from the wheeling sun and the nodding earth, from the strayingof the planets and the magnificence of the fixed stars.

Mankind have been slow to believe that order reigns in the universe-that the world is a cosmos and a chaos.

The duck swallows the worm, the fox kills the duck, the men shoot the fox, and the devil hunts the men.

When the lion had eaten its fill, and the jackals had taken their share, the ants came along and finished up the meat from the bones of the haughty stag.