To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
Humans withdraw to their homes, and surrender the night to the creatures that own it: the crickets, the owls, the snakes. A… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Hell is a state of mind -- ye never said a truer word. And every state of mind, left to itself, every… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
I personally cannot discern a shred of evidence for ‘[intelligent] design.’ If 97% of all creatures have gone extinct, some plan isn't… — Irven DeVore Copy Share Image
What's that?" he asked, when I stood beside him again. "Halos," I said with a grin. "For heavenly creatures like us." "That… — Richelle Mead Copy Share Image
To come to the end of a time of anxiety and fear! To feel the cloud that hung over us lift and… — Richard Adams Copy Share Image
Then there is that other appeal, the stronger one, of spending, during certain parts of the year, a ten- or twelve- hour… — Sue Hubbell Copy Share Image
Two would actually do it- two magic words that could replace all the religions in the world- two wonderful words that embrace… — Roger Caras Copy Share Image
It is You Jesus, stretched out on the cross, who gives me strength and are always close to the suffering soul. Creatures… — Mary Faustina Kowalska Copy Share Image
If a man carefully examine his thoughts he will be surprised to find how much he lives in the future. His well-being… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Wherefore, if meat causeth my brother to stumble, I will eat no flesh for evermore, that I cause not my brother to… — Paul the Apostle Copy Share Image
All things of creation are children of the Father and thus brothers of man. ... God wants us to help animals, if… — Francis of Assisi Copy Share Image
Like living creatures, automobiles expired when their environment became saturated with their own excreta. We ourselves are living creatures. We don't want… — John Brunner Copy Share Image
Viceis a creature of such heejous mienthat th' more ye see it th' betther ye like it. — Finley Peter Dunne Copy Share Image
I cling to the optimistic belief that the haphazard and the hopscotch, the creature that sips among many flowers, may actually come… — Brad Leithauser Copy Share Image
Both our senses and our passions are a supply to the imperfection of our nature; thus they show that we are such… — Joseph Butler Copy Share Image
The most beautiful, the most spirited and the most inspiring creature ever to print foot on the grasses of America. — J. Frank Dobie Copy Share Image
The other creatures with which we share this world have their rights too, but not speaking our language, they have no voice,… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
In plain terms, a child is a complicated creature who can drive you crazy. There's a cruelty to childhood, there's an anger. — Maurice Sendak Copy Share Image
A surging, seething, murmuring crowd of beings that are human only in name, for to the eye and ear they seem naught… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Why should a lobster be any more ridiculous than a dog? ... or a cat, or a gazelle, or a lion, or… — Gerard De Nerval Copy Share Image
Women? In order to realize how far these charming creatures we idealize can carry their cruelty, we must see them among themselves! — Honore de Balzac Copy Share Image
God wants to be praised for nourishing and cherishing, for God cherishes all creatures. God is not only the creator, but is… — Martin Luther Copy Share Image
The good or evil we confer on others very often, I believe, recoils on ourselves; for as men of a benign disposition… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
A poor creature who has said or done nothing worth a serious man taking the trouble of remembering. — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
You will be required to do wrong no matter where you go. It is the basic condition of life, to be required… — Philip K. Dick Copy Share Image
The pretense that humans are superior to nonhumans is entirely unsupportable. I have seen no compelling evidence that humans are particularly more… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Shy and proud men are more liable than any others to fall into the hands of parasites and creatures of low character.… — Henry Taylor Copy Share Image
If God meant to interfere in the degeneracy of mankind would he not have done so by now? Wolves cull themselves, man.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
Nature knows no political boundaries. She puts living creatures on this globe and watches the free play of forces. She then confers… — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
For we cannot adequately understand 'man' as an isolated biological creature, as a bundle of reflexes or a set of instincts, as… — C. Wright Mills Copy Share Image
...'I thought the rule was that all monks were shaved.' 'Oh, Soto says he is bald under the hair,'said Lu Tze. 'He… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Don't assume that money, shelter and creature comforts are enough to demonstrate your love. Nothing can replace your presence, your hug, your… — Denis Waitley Copy Share Image
Chimpanzees, more than any other living creature, have helped us to understand that there is no sharp line between humans and the… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
A greater number of God's creatures believe in Mahomet's word at this hour than in any other word whatever. Are we to… — Thomas Carlyle Copy Share Image
God is indeed dead. He died of self-horror when He saw the creature He had made in His own image. — Irving Layton Copy Share Image
Drawn by conceit from reason's plan How vain is that poor creature man; How pleas'd in ev'ry paltry elf To grate about… — Charles Churchill Copy Share Image
Man's ultimate destiny is to become one with the Divine Power which governs and sustains the creation and its creatures. — Alfred Armand Montapert Copy Share Image