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
There has come a time when we can no longer remain silent but must speak up for our country which is being… — Di Morrissey Copy Share Image
We ogle plants and animals up close on television, the Internet and in the movies. We may not worship the animals we… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
“Even plants and animals were mechanised. Around the time that Homo sapiens was elevated to divine status by humanist religions, farm animals… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Scientists have been saying, for an awfully long time, that we're all interconnected. Scientists would use the word 'ecosystem' to express that… — Naomi Oreskes Copy Share Image
There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information,… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
“The earliest impressions are pictographic in form - little pictures that are the stylized versions of the things they represent. And most… — Chris Godsen Copy Share Image
The apparent physical stability of reefs belies an underlying natural turmoil of growth, death and destruction of calcareous organisms. Much like a… — Jeremy Jackson Copy Share Image
“All of our uncertainties about nutrition should not obscure the plain fact that the chronic diseases that now kill most of us… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
The main characteristic of Nature's farming can therefore be summed up in a few words. Mother earth never attempts to farm without… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
All living organisms are but leaves on the same tree of life. The various functions of plants and animals and their specialized… — Albert Szent-Gyorgyi Copy Share Image
“From that time forth, whenever a critical decision had to be made concerning the future, the Oneida considered "how much was enough… — Bruce Hampton Copy Share Image
“It came to me in whole form… that the energy of the Universe swirled and coalesced and formed into suns and cooling… — Robin Rumi Copy Share Image
One road to happiness is to cultivate curiosity about everything. Not only about people but about subjects, not only about the arts… — Gerald Brenan Copy Share Image
“A behavior has occurred that is good, bad, or ambiguous. How have cultural factors stretching back to the origins of humans contributed… — Robert M. Sapolsky Copy Share Image
Agriculture probably required a far greater discipline than did any form of food collecting. Seeds had to be planted at certain seasons,… — Charles Heiser 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
Many years ago it was taught that plants and animals were composed of different materials: plants, of a chemical substance of three… — Asa Gray Copy Share Image
“Beauty and perfection do not guarantee grace and fulfillment and are always sacrificed. Life itself seems a ritual of sacrifice, and the… — Kate Horsley Copy Share Image
Permaculture is a design system for creating sustainable human environments...Permaculture uses the inherent qualities of plants and animals combined with the natural… — Bill Mollison 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
Simply by starting to cook again, you declare your independence from the culture of fast food. As soon as you cook, you… — Michael Pollan 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
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
Every soul on earth is equally precious, even those of plants and animals. If you see love in one area and not… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
“The striving of humanity for knowledge and truth [can] not be suppressed. The growth of the spirit [is]an essential part of Creation;… — Peter Prange Copy Share Image
“The same waves had rolled along these shores for millions of years; dinosaurs once bathed in the same water I now paddled… — Adrian Barnes Copy Share Image
“But if humans can make new varieties of plants and animals, must not nature do so also? This related process is called… — Carl Sagan 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
(The animal rights movement) should be supported by all Christians. In an ecological universe, every created entity has intrinsic value because all… — Charles Birch Copy Share Image
“And just as the functions of the bodily organs of plants and animals cannot be arbitrarily altered, so that, for example, one… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
“Sustainability requires that every community meet the needs of all its members (including plants and animals), present and future, without compromising the… — Michael H. Shuman Copy Share Image
My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively:… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
The environment is everything that makes up our surroundings and affects our ability to live on the earth - the air we… — Yaya Toure Copy Share Image
When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the universe. One fancies a… — John Muir Copy Share Image
In short, Europe’s colonization of Africa had nothing to do with differences between European and African peoples themselves, as white racists assume.… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
If humans evolved in a tiny area of Africa, they only saw plants and animals within a 100-kilometre radius for a million… — Barry Marshall Copy Share Image
“This process is called artificial selection. In the case of the Heike crab it was effected more or less unconsciously by the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
![“There are about 250,000 different species of fossil plants and animals known . . In spite of this large quantity of information, it is but a tiny fraction of the diversity that [according to the theory] actually lived in the past. There are well over a million species living today and . . [it is]…” quote by David M. Raup](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/i/37b/david-m-raup-33751_animal_there-are-about-250-000-different-specie_264230.jpg)
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