Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
Among God's creatures two, the dog and the guitar, have taken all the sizes and all the shapes, in order not to… — Andres Segovia Copy Share Image
Man is said to be a rational creature; but should it not rather be said, that man is a creature capable of… — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke Copy Share Image
The look of disbelief that ran across the boy's face was somehow more disturbing than the despair it had replaced. This creature… — Brandon Sanderson Copy Share Image
God loves to see his creatures happy; our lawful delight is His; they know not God that think to please Him with… — Joseph Hall Copy Share Image
Seafood is simply a socially acceptable form of bush meat. We condemn Africans for hunting monkeys and mammalian and bird species from… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
Intelligence alone does not get us where we need to go or even necessarily where we want to go. For that, the… — Krista Tippett Copy Share Image
I think part of being a parent, to love one's child, is to accept them as they come - not to see… — Michael Sandel Copy Share Image
I wish I wasn’t a girl who needed so much but a little free creature that slept in deserts and ran on… — Francesca Lia Block Copy Share Image
A creature not too bright or good For human nature's daily food; For transient sorrows, simple wiles, Praise, blame, love, kisses, tears,… — William Wordsworth Copy Share Image
Every creature and plant is part of her (mother nature's) amazing interconnected garden... The whole world is a garden. — Costa Georgiadis Copy Share Image
Governor Scott Walker didn't know who he was messing with when he picked a fight with the hard-working union folks of Wisconsin.… — Gwen Moore Copy Share Image
Animals are not brethren, they are not underlings; they are other nations, caught with ourselves in the net of life and time. — Henry Beston Copy Share Image
Man is distinguished from the brute animals in proportion as thought prevails over sense: but in the healthy processes of the mind,… — Samuel Taylor Coleridge Copy Share Image
The belief that man is an irresolute creature pulled this way and that by two forces of equal strength, alternately winning and… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
Nature is always lovely, invincible, glad, whatever is done and suffered by her creatures. All scars she heals, whether in rocks or… — John Muir Copy Share Image
The gentleman had also a young daughter, of rare goodness and sweetness of temper, which she took from her mother, who was… — Charles Perrault Copy Share Image
Uranium is the raw material of a power-elite who has taken Mother Earth's every living creature hostage. — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
You may never get to touch the Master, but you can tickle his creatures. — Thomas Pynchon Copy Share Image
the most dangerous temptations are not due to the active, sudden flames of desire, 'the lusts of the flesh,' but to the… — Sigrid Undset Copy Share Image
There's a flame of magic inside every stone & every flower, every bird that sings & every frog that croaks. There's magic… — Kate Forsyth Copy Share Image
If we cannot find a way to interpret the utterances and other behaviour of a creature as revealing a set of beliefs… — Donald Davidson Copy Share Image