Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man. — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
It is almost as hard for us to sense our own species quality as it is to sense our species smell. — Lois Crisler Copy Share Image
If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here,… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet. — Lawrence M. Krauss Copy Share Image
Bacteria live in unbelievable mixtures of hundreds or thousands of species. Like on your teeth. There are 600 species of bacteria on… — Bonnie Bassler Copy Share Image
With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse. — Dee Hock Copy Share Image
The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be… — Joseph Needham Copy Share Image
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing, — Alison Gopnik Copy Share Image
We console ourselves with the comfortable fallacy that a single museum piece will do, ignoring the clear dictum of history that a… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Nature has introduced great variety into the landscape, but man has displayed a passion for simplifying it. Thus he undoes the built-in… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The core of ethics runs deep in our species and is common to human beings everywhere. It survives the most appalling hardships… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop… — Al-Jahiz Copy Share Image
In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed… — Whitley Strieber Copy Share Image
If you are not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die. And discovering, I think, that's what separates us from… — Pharrell Williams Copy Share Image
The saddest thing in the world was that human beings, for all their ardent striving and desire, could never achieve physical, emotional,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In an average day, you may well be confronted with some species of bullying or bigotry, or some ill-phrased appeal to the… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
And so in 1975, the grizzly bear was put on, as I said - on the endangered species list as threatened. And… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
That's really a part of my nature , it goes along with autonomy and independence of action - it's just that I… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
The Great Story of our immense journey contains crucial lessons for guiding humanity safely through the dangers and confusions evident today. This… — Michael Dowd Copy Share Image
Paleontologists ever since Darwin have been searching (largely in vain) for the sequences of insensibly graded series of fossils that would stand… — Niles Eldredge Copy Share Image
There were certain great principles involved in the organization of this earth, and one was that there might be a place provided… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
Though it is true we are the highest and smartest animals, ospreys have eyes we have calculated to be sixty times more… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures.… — Lester R. Brown Copy Share Image
The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense.… — Robert Green Ingersoll Copy Share Image
We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare. — Warren Buffett Copy Share Image
Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of… — Johann Georg Ritter von Zimmermann Copy Share Image
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it. — Larry Niven Copy Share Image
In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of… — Aldo Leopold Copy Share Image
Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a… — Laura Wade Copy Share Image
As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and… — Will Carling Copy Share Image
An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I… — Rusty Schweickart Copy Share Image
You know when you work with animals you have to do so very carefully, species by species. — Niki Caro Copy Share Image
If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys,… — Ted Nugent Copy Share Image
Most women defend themselves. It is the female of the species-it is the tigress and lioness in you which tends to defend… — Margaret Thatcher Copy Share Image
Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival… — Scott McCloud Copy Share Image
Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth. — Ken Robinson Copy Share Image
The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce… — John L. Culliney Copy Share Image
