Death is natural and necessary, but not just. It is a random force of nature; survival is equally accidental. Each loss is an occasion to remember that survival is a gift.

John is a force of nature.

Relax. They're not going to kill us. They're going to TRY and kill us. And that is a very different thing.

When you're in the battlefield, survival is all there is. Death is the only great emotion.

Human nature is above all things—lazy.

In the world of wild naturalism, there is nothing greater or higher than mortal survival tactics. Everything we do, we do as mortal beings with an unknowable date of death stuck on our head, or to be specific in the genetic clock.