... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly… — Henry Walter Bates Copy Share Image
When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like… — J. Courtney Sullivan Copy Share Image
No species, ours included, possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by its genetic history. — Edward'O Copy Share Image
We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
One would wonder to hear skeptical men disputing for the reason of animals, and telling us it is only our pride and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
Who’s going to keep them from wiping us out species by species? Not me. We aren’t prepared for a new demographic of… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Like other organisms, humans have a certain genetic endowment (apparently varying little in the species, not a surprise considering its recent separation… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
Even if we planted a tree on every square yard available in the planet by the end of the century we would… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
I think there's a collective consciousness around the world that there are things beyond our control that have the power to annihilate… — Laurie Holden Copy Share Image
The most powerful words in English are 'Tell me a story,' words that are intimately related to the complexity of history, the… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
The law of evolution is that the strongest survives!' 'Yes, and the strongest, in the existence of any social species, are those… — Ursula K. Le Guin Copy Share Image
The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. — Norman Cousins Copy Share Image
There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in… — Hendrik Poinar Copy Share Image
We deny the right of any portion of the species to decide for another portion what is and what is not their… — Harriet Taylor Mill Copy Share Image
Let's find and remedy all our weaknesses before our enemies get a chance to say a word. That is what Charles Darwin… — Dale Carnegie Copy Share Image
The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis. And this is a new kind… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The fate of hundreds of thousands of species on this planet may be decided in the next decade. To slow the rush… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money… — Laurence J. Peter Copy Share Image
Insect resistance to a pesticide was first reported in 1947 for the Housefly (Musca domestica) with respect to DDT. Since then resistance… — Francisco J. Ayala Copy Share Image
The species of anti-Enlightenment religion we find among evangelical protestants is far more impoverished, anti-intellectual and downright wretched. — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
we need poetry most at those moments when life astounds us with losses, gains, or celebrations. We need it most when we… — Erica Jong Copy Share Image
Only within the moment of time represented by the present century has one species -- man -- acquired significant power to alter… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to… — Tiffany Madison Copy Share Image