The notion of illegal plants and animals is obnoxious and ridiculous. — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
We cannot have peace among men whose hearts find delight in killing any living creature. — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“Early Near Eastern villages domesticated plants and animals. Uruk urban institutions, in turn, domesticated humans.” — James C. Scott Copy Share Image
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
We judge plants and animals by whether they're entertaining to us. We... — Gary Larson Copy Share Image
Left alone, the earth maintains its own fertility, in accordance with the orderly cycle of plant and animal life. — Masanobu Fukuoka Copy Share Image
I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
Land is not merely soil, it is a fountain of energy flowing through a circuit of soils, plants and animals. — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
In learning to pay respectful attention to one another and plants and animals, we relearn the acts of empathy, and thus humility… — William Kittredge Copy Share Image
I am interested in 18th century natural philosophy, science, particularly botany, the study of hybridity in plants and animals, which, of course,… — Natasha Trethewey Copy Share Image
RNA interference has proven to be a quite reliable mechanism for turning genes off in a whole variety of different plants and… — Craig Mello Copy Share Image
There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
“The fewer plants and animals we are able to recognize as individuals—recognize well enough to name—the more alienated we have come to… — Linda Bender Copy Share Image
You begin paying more attention to what you're seeing when you know the names... If you don't know the names of plant… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
“There is no doubt that plants and animals have minds, emotions, feelings, and survival instincts. This means that we must also consider… — Mwanandeke Kindembo Copy Share Image
“Although it’s not just plants and animals that die out, so do books. Quite often, I’m sorry to say. I’m sure you… — Cornelia Funke Copy Share Image
The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
“The earliest impressions are pictographic in form - little pictures that are the stylized versions of the things they represent. And most… — Chris Godsen Copy Share Image
Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons,… — Charles Heiser Copy Share Image
Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
“Beauty and perfection do not guarantee grace and fulfillment and are always sacrificed. Life itself seems a ritual of sacrifice, and the… — Kate Horsley Copy Share Image
No magic bullet, not even the Internet, can save us from population explosion, deforestation, climate disruption, poison by pollution, and wholesale extinction… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
“[...] if truth be told, evolution hasn’t yielded many practical or commercial benefits. Yes, bacteria evolve drug resistance, and yes, we must… — Jerry A. Coyne Copy Share Image
“A sophisticated human can become primitive. What this really means is that the human's way of life changes. Old values change, become… — Frank Herbert Copy Share Image
“Will it be possible to solve these problems? It is certain that nobody has thus far observed the transformation of dead into… — Jacques Loeb Copy Share Image
A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
Wilderness is not only a haven for native plants and animals but it is also a refuge from society. Its a place… — John Muir Copy Share Image
“The tendency to variation in living beings, which all admitted as a matter of fact; the selective influence of conditions, which no… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“I think I’d know it if we were part of an omnipotent being,” I said. “Would you? Your skin cells are not… — Scott Adams Copy Share Image
“The earth’s surface measures about 200 million square miles, of which 60 million is land. As late as AD 1400, the vast… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“…For many years now, that way of living has been scorned, and over the last 40 or 50 years it has nearly… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
“Somewhere close I knew spear-nosed bats flew through the tree crowns in search of fruit, palm vipers coiled in ambush in the… — Edward O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“When we compare the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of the first… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
“Montessori classrooms emphasize self-directed learning, hands-on engagement with a wide variety of materials (including plants and animals), and a largely unstructured school… — Erik Brynjolfsson Copy Share Image
“Not too long ago thousands spent their lives as recluses to find spiritual vision in the solitude of nature. Modern man need… — Franz Winkler Copy Share Image
“The environment is not an "other" to us. It is not a collection of things that we encounter. Rather, it is part… — George Lakoff Copy Share Image
“I live in nature where everything is connected, circular. The seasons are circular. The planet is circular, and so is the planet… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
“Consider how textbooks treat Native religions as a unitary whole. ... "These Native Americans ... believed that nature was filled with spirits.… — James W. Loewen Copy Share Image