The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder. — Douglas Coupland Copy Share Image
“Man, n. An animal so lost in rapturous contemplation of what he thinks he is as to overlook what he indubitably out… — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
I'm in the role of helping these apes negotiate the human role. I'm just a temporary intermediary in what I think will… — Sue Savage-Rumbaugh Copy Share Image
I contend that the continued racial classification of Homo sapiens represents an outmoded approach to the general problem of differentiation within a… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Our appetites, of one or another kind, are excellent spurs to our reason, which might otherwise but feebly set about the great… — Charles Lamb Copy Share Image
And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. — Julien Benda Copy Share Image
Wildlife needs wilderness-not just to survive, but also to live freely. Sadly, many species struggle to survive due to increased human activity… — Zoe Helene Copy Share Image
“Only after you've done the exorcism, then you'll understand that ghost's also a species.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
I think that space flight is a condition of Nature that comes into effect when an intelligent species reaches the saturation point… — Donald A. Wollheim Copy Share Image
The observation that species are amazingly conservative and static entities throughout long periods of time has all the qualities of the emperor's… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
“There can be no doubt that the existing Fauna and Flora is but the last term of a long series of equally… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise… — David Brin Copy Share Image
If insemination were the sole biological function of sex, it could be achieved far more economically in a few seconds of mounting… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Perhaps it is a fault of the species who thrive in peace, mutual help, aspirations for more of the same -- to… — Doris Lessing Copy Share Image
She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
It's very interesting to think about the distinction with mind, which I just made in very general terms, but it can be… — Antonio Damasio Copy Share Image
There is no other species on Earth that does science. It is, so far, entirely a human invention, evolved by natural selection… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
The worst thing that will probably happen-in fact is already well underway-is not energy depletion, economic collapse, conventional war, or the expansion… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species. — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a… — Dave Sitek Copy Share Image
In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species.… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
Man, who preys both on the vegetable and animal species, is himself a prey to neither. He too possesses the reproductive principle… — James Madison Copy Share Image
