Long-lived

I would love to meet a philosopher like Nietzsche on a train or boat and to talk with him all night. Incidentally, I don't consider his philosophy long-lived. It is not so much persuasive as full of bravura.

Humans are adding carbon dioxide to the atmosphere at a rate far greater than it is removed by natural processes, creating a long-lived reservoir of the gas in the atmosphere and oceans that is driving the climate to a warmer and warmer state.

In the field of astronomy, there are researchers who postulate that a long-lived spacefaring civilization would be post-biological. Perhaps, in such a scenario, the biological precursors would be relegated to live just on the home world. For us humans, we question whether our bodies would be too fragile for deep space, and maybe we would leave deep space for our machine children with intellect.

The Ottomans brought the long-lived Byzantine Empire to its end.

Roark says the long-lived corals are important not only because they support many other forms of marine life, but because they also open a window on the ocean's ancient history.