Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The survey of more than 100 waterways downstream from treatment plants and animal feedlots in 30 states found minute amounts of dozens… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
No magic bullet, not even the Internet, can save us from population explosion, deforestation, climate disruption, poison by pollution, and wholesale extinction… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Tragically, some people are genetically more susceptible than others to agripoisons and industrial pollutants. Genetic engineering to correct these medical problems is… — Michael Fox Copy Share Image
“God is not only something metaphysical, but also the physical world, the plants and animals, the mountains and rivers, the air and… — Jeffrey R. Anderson Copy Share Image
Once plants and animals were raised together on the same farm - which therefore neither produced unmanageable surpluses of manure, to be… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It's a sign of respect and connection to learn the name of someone else, a sign of disrespect to ignore it. And… — Robin Wall Kimmerer Copy Share Image
“Handling these plants and animals, taking back the production and the preparation of even just some part of our food, has the… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
When you see someone dying in front of you from a direct and simple cause, it's easier to deal with [that] than… — John H Richardson Copy Share Image
It is a fact that the ecological devastation of the planet can be traced to the consumption of meat and dairy, which… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
There is something basic about protecting land by taking it off the market. People should be able to enjoy where they live… — Tom Hanks Copy Share Image
Probe the universe in a myriad of points. ... He is a wise man who has taken many views; to whom stones… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The world of organisms, of animals and plants, is built up of individuals. I like to think, then, of natural history as… — Marston Bates Copy Share Image
“The tendency to variation in living beings, which all admitted as a matter of fact; the selective influence of conditions, which no… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
“So now the polar ice caps are melting, sea levels are rising, and the weather is all messed up. Plants and animals… — Ernest Cline Copy Share Image
Until we stop harming all other living beings, we are still savages. — Thomas Jefferson Copy Share Image
Life evolved under conditions of light and darkness, light and then darkness. And so plants and animals developed their own internal clocks… — Jessa Gamble Copy Share Image
“When we compare the individuals of the same variety or sub-variety of our older cultivated plants and animals, one of the first… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
If we are looking for insurance against want and oppression, we will find it only in our neighbors' prosperity and goodwill and,… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
The human family has invaluable friends and irreplaceable allies in the plant and animal worlds. We cannot continue to tug at the… — Van Jones Copy Share Image
“David had been photographing endangered species in the Hawaiian rainforest and elsewhere for years, and his collections of photographs and Suzie's tarot… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
“To grow the plants and animals that made up my meal, no pesticides found their way into any farmworker’s bloodstream, no nitrogen… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Colombia has a huge variety of plant and animal species, and we have enormous potential. Small and mid-sized companies should come to… — Juan Manuel Santos Copy Share Image
The morphological characteristics of plant and animal species form the chief subject of the descriptive natural sciences and are the criteria for… — Karl Landsteiner Copy Share Image
I was a town child, it is true, but that did not prevent me enjoying open-air life, with plants and animals. — Georg Brandes Copy Share Image
