The slightest living thing answers a deeper need than all the works of man because it is transitory. It has an evanescence… — Freya Stark Copy Share Image
“This is direct evidence of evolution. We share so much with our placental mammalian cousins because we all had a common ancestor… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
The earliest signs of living things, announcing as they do a high complexity of organization, entirely exclude the hypothesis of a transmutation… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
“Ethics that focus on human interactions, morals that focus on humanity's relationship to a Creator, fall short of these things we've learned.… — Carl Safina Copy Share Image
I realized that Eastern thought had somewhat more compassion for all living things. Man was a form of life that in another… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
It is the nature of all living things to find some being greater than themselves and place their trust in that being,… — Aizen Sosuke Copy Share Image
“Until recently, attempts to resolve the contradictions created by urbanization, centralization, bureaucratic growth and statification were viewed as a vain counterdrift to… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
“Life is oblivion erupting, for a brief moment, into nonoblivion in order so that oblivion may proclaim... "I am." The assumption being,… — Barbara Gowdy Copy Share Image
We are social animals. We like to feel a part of something of beauty and power that transcends our insignificance. It can… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
“I discovered another analogy in the legacy of Prophet Muhammad that immediately clicked with me: that the angels put down their wings… — Sahar El-Nadi Copy Share Image
When I contemplate the accumulation of guilt and remorse which, like a garbage-can, I carry through life, and which is fed not… — Cyril Connolly Copy Share Image
Humanism" is to be human, to think, to analyze, and to probe. To respond and to be stimulated by all living things… — Jacob Lawrence Copy Share Image
“For the information of these “friends” who consider themselves called to defend against us the role of the Bolsheviks in the October… — Leon Trotsky Copy Share Image
Even the best weapon is an unhappy tool, hateful to living things. So the follower of the Way stays away from it.… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
I have a studio in the country - in the woods - but my paintings look more real to me than what… — Philip Guston Copy Share Image
Polar fleece is a plush, spongy, totally artificial material that weighs nothing and conveys no quality of warmth or coolness; in fact,… — Mary Ruefle Copy Share Image
“We are so used to the notion of our own inevitability as life’s dominant species that it is hard to grasp that… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“At this point I reveal myself in my true colours, as a stick-in-the-mud. I hold a number of beliefs that have been… — Kenneth Clark Copy Share Image
“Oh, trebly hooped and welded hip of power! Oh, high aspiring, rainbowed jet!—that one strives, this one jettest all in vain! In… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
“The subject dropped, and we sat on in the dusk that was rapidly deepening into night. The door into the hall was… — E.F. Benson Copy Share Image
But would you kindly ponder this question: What would your good do if evil didn't exist, and what would the earth look… — Mikhail Bulgakov Copy Share Image
“As for the significance of my nihilism…in a word, it is the foundation of my thoughts. The goal of my activities is… — Mikiso Hane Copy Share Image
“Sensing her hard separateness in their separate footsteps as they walked towards her home in the sleeping suburbs, he began to feel… — John McGahern Copy Share Image
Living political constitutions must be Darwinian in structure and in practice. Society is a living organism and must obey the laws of… — Woodrow Wilson Copy Share Image
We debase the richness of both nature and our own minds if we view the great pageant of our intellectual history as… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“The day was one of those early Spring days that for some mysterious reason, very hard to analyse, are felt to be… — John Cowper Powys Copy Share Image
“Some people say they don’t believe in God, but they believe in an energy that moves through all living things. Others say… — Vironika Tugaleva Copy Share Image
Humanity cannot afford to acknowledge all of the blood that it spills and the destruction it inflicts on the world in its… — Jeremy Rifkin Copy Share Image
“The biologist and intellectual E. O. Wilson was once asked what represented the most hindrance to the development of children; his answer… — Nassim Nicholas Taleb Copy Share Image
They (animals) are not just living things; they are beings with lives... that makes all the difference in the world...next time you… — Jonathan Balcombe Copy Share Image
“Until tonight. Something was different tonight. There was an edge to this darkness that made his hackles rise. Nine days they had… — George R.R. Martin Copy Share Image
Members in the Commonwealth of God are not bound together by the specifics of their religion, for the nature of our interdependency… — Forrest Church Copy Share Image
“For instance, have you heard of Rupert Sheldrake’s work with dogs? He puts a time-recording camera on both the dog at home… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
Nature attains perfection, but man never does. There is a perfect ant, a perfect bee, but man is perpetually unfinished. He is… — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“It was all right when I did it,” I said, “but when you did it, it was wrong. As though—you were following… — Naomi Novik Copy Share Image
On the earth, satellite of a star speeding through space, living things had arisen under the influence of conditions which were part… — W. Somerset Maugham Copy Share Image
Because Christian morality leaves animals out of account, they are at once outlawed in philosophical morals; they are mere 'things,' mere means… — Arthur Schopenhauer Copy Share Image
“Love for trees pours out of her—the grace of them, their supple experimentation, the constant variety and surprise. These slow, deliberate creatures… — Richard Powers Copy Share Image
“There now,” she said to the flowers in an encouraging tone, “you have food and air. You’ll be very happy and pretty… — Judith McNaught Copy Share Image
“Those of us who are in tune with nature and animals know it is our way of life, Bram. There is a… — Ralph Helfer Copy Share Image
