I'm from Bourbon, Missouri, where spirits are high and…

The female population exceeds the male, you know, especially in New England, which accounts for the high state of culture we are in, perhaps.

— Louisa May Alcott

Let the music keep our spirits high, let the buildings keep our children dry, let creation reveal its secrets by and bye.

— Jackson Browne

My sole aim is to leave everything in suspension, in flux, in order to avoid our community solidifying into a conventional academy. Our initial…

— Walter Gropius

The Delaware Estuary has sustained a human population for thousands of years, but by the end of the 19th Century, increased population and industrialization…

— Jim Gerlach

In fact, the early demographer Thomas Malthus believes that the only way the human population would ever check itself was by running headlong into…

— Annalee Newitz

The human population is 90% gullible, violence-prone dipshits.

— Scott Adams

“As this book will show, objectively defined races simply do not exist. Even Arthur Mourant realized that fact nearly fifty years ago, when he…

— Bryan Sykes

By the end of this century, climate change will reduce the human population to a few breeding pairs surviving near the Arctic.

— James Lovelock

After a moment, Wrath turned to John. "This is Lassiter, the fallen angel. One of the last times he was here on earth, there…

— J.R. Ward

“An atom is mostly made up of empty space. If you remove the empty space from every atom, the entire world's human population could…

— Weike Wang

“In the year 1500, there were about 500 million Homo sapiens in the entire world. Today, there are 7 billion.1 The total value of…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“human population growth mushroomed as quality of life plummeted. The shift to agriculture, wrote author Jared Diamond, is a “catastrophe from which we have…

— Christopher Ryan

With earth's burgeoning human population to feed we must turn to the sea with understanding and new technology. We need to farm it as…

— Jacques Yves Cousteau

Human overconsumption is a greater problem than human population growth, and meat eating is a big part of that problem.

— Sharon Gannon

“The human population is too large, and the earth too small, to sustain us in the ways our ancestors lived. Most of the land…

— Nina Fedoroff