My world, my Earth is a ruin. A planet spoiled by the human species. We multiplied and fought and gobbled until there… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive. — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
I think we're going to move from a Homo sapiens into a Homo evolutis: ... a hominid that takes direct and deliberate… — Juan Enriquez Copy Share Image
Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
If all the misfortunes of mankind were cast into a public stack in order to be equally distributed among the whole species,… — Socrates Copy Share Image
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to… — Louis Kronenberger Copy Share Image
Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend. — Kate Braverman Copy Share Image
It is the hope of those who work toward the breakout from planet Earth that the establishment of permanent, self-sustaining colonies of… — Gerard K. O'Neill Copy Share Image
Heads are a good deal, and I think they would be a common feature. It's hard to think of species that don't… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
As soon as somebody demonstrates the art of flying, settlers from our species of man will not be lacking on the moon… — Johannes Kepler Copy Share Image
Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library… — John Dingell Copy Share Image
“Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband and wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
I think Samuel Johnson had it right when he observed that hope is itself a species of happiness. So if we want… — Michael Josephson Copy Share Image
In Alaska, the beaches are slumping so much, people are having to move houses. In Tuktoyaktuk, the land is starting to go… — Sheila Watt-Cloutier Copy Share Image
An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species… — Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon Copy Share Image
I am interested and deeply curious about our need for a spiritual life, a life of greater meaning, and how we come… — Terry Tempest Williams Copy Share Image
Perhaps it won't matter, in the end, which country is the sower of the seed of exploration. The importance will be in… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
Cultivation is at least one of the greatest natural improvements ever made by human invention. It has given to created earth a… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
In the West, we got the message that it's not cool to wear ivory. It's not cool to utilize products from these… — Patrick Bergin Copy Share Image
Morality, taken as apart from religion, is but another name for decency in sin. It is just that negative species of virtue… — Horace Bushnell Copy Share Image
Like every other destruction of optimism, whether in a whole civilisation or in a single individual, these must have been unspeakable catastrophes… — David Deutsch Copy Share Image
