The first thing you have to do is accept that decay sets in and there's nothing you can do about it.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
I have always looked upon decay as being just as wonderful and rich an expression of life as growth.
If those communities are left to decay, this city will decay.
Either you abandon fossil fuels, or you find a way to get that carbon back.
You know, of course, the specimens are not alive. We have to fix them in a fixing liquid formaldehyde and then we have to do a rinsing and then we have to coat them in a thin layer of gold.
Probably the simplest hypothesis... is that there may be a slow process of annihilation of matter.
Leave the atom alone.
Reject what you don't want. Get rid of dead wood.
He who rejects change is the architect of decay. The only human institution which rejects progress is the cemetery.
You must prune dead or dying wood.
Decay is quiet but ghastly, explosion is dramatic and dreadful. There's not much to choose between the two of them in reality, and most of our lives have sufficient of both.