I'm convinced that the catastrophes of the next two…

That is certainly the point: when the human species was born, on the African savanna, life was pretty good; we could live in harmony…

— Kirkpatrick Sale

“I have had my mother's wing of my genetic ancestry analyzed by the National Geographic tracing service and there it all is: the arrow…

— Christopher Hitchens

Mankind has invested more than four million years of evolution in the attempt to avoid physical exertion. Now a group of backward-thinking atavists mounted…

— P. J. O'Rourke

I do think that procrastination evolved in humans for good reasons. If you're trying to stay alive as a human being on the savanna…

— James Surowiecki

The Internet is part of this ongoing, species-long project we've been working on since we climbed down out of the trees in the savanna.…

— William Gibson

We are beasts, you know, beasts risen from the savannas and jungles and forests. We have come down from the trees and up out…

— Yasmine Galenorn

Physiologically adult humans are not meant to spend an additional 10 years in a school system; their brains map that onto "I have been…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

I take seriously the idea that we are African Apes who (at least for the moment) dominate the planet, but our psychology is pretty…

— Dale Jamieson

I had never planned to become a savanna baboon when I grew up; instead, I had always assumed I would become a mountain gorilla.

— Anonymous

“You don’t have to be afraid. We look out for anyone who needs us.” “Together, they were the Pride Pack. And in that moment,…

— Anonymous

We see evidence that lakes and forests and wetlands can have different equilibria - so you have a savanna system that may be stable…

— Johan Rockstrom

I think that were beginning to remember that the first poets didn't come out of a classroom, that poetry began when somebody walked off…

— Lucille Clifton

Humans became easy prey when they moved from the forest to the savanna, which deprived them of the option of climbing trees to flee…

— Frans de Waal

Since Serengeti-scale savanna scenes are only one or two million years old, our earliest after-the-apes ancestors didn't move into this scene so much as…

— William H. Calvin

“Long before the stars died the birds began to sing - cool rippling doves, loud cheery starlings, the long lilting trills of warblers and…

— Mike Bond