His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened… — Harriet Martineau Copy Share Image
It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes… — James Cameron Copy Share Image
Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter ! — Bruce H. Lipton Copy Share Image
It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment. — Fulke Greville, 1st Baron Brooke 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
A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man… — John Stuart Mill Copy Share Image
The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
Not only does every animal live at the expense of some other animal or plant, but thevery plants are at war… The… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Strange that mankind should ever have used the mushroom. All the various species of this substance are of a leathery consistence, and… — William Alcott Copy Share Image
Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands,… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
In every species of fish I've angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the… — Ray Bergman Copy Share Image
If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
the compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is… — Lorrie Moore Copy Share Image
We have not only the right, but a specific duty, to honestly and unflinchingly look at all aspects of our world, both… — Michael Light Copy Share Image
As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
The existing order is breaking down at a very rapid rate, and the main uncertainty is whether mankind can exert a positive… — Richard A. Falk Copy Share Image
Spraying to kill trees and and raspberry bushes after a clear-cut merely looks unaesthetic for a short time, but tree plantations are… — Bernd Heinrich Copy Share Image
[Children are] like talking animals. Their consciousness is so different from ours that they constitute a different species. They don't have to… — Fran Lebowitz Copy Share Image
If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we… — Stephen Hawking Copy Share Image
Through the art of personal development, we see an opportunity for these animals to inspire compassion, essentially creating a path to deep… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
As kings are begotten and born like other men, it is to be presumed that they are of the human species; and… — Lord Chesterfield Copy Share Image
Every fall into love involves the triumph of hope over self-knowledge. We fall in love hoping we won't find in another what… — Alain de Botton Copy Share Image
Every reader of the Conversations with the God is invited to self-select, that is, to choose themselves, to be among those who… — Neale Donald Walsch Copy Share Image
Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
My feeling is that Darwinism is only at best a partial solution, and an extremely dangerous partial solution. I would say, based… — Ben Stein Copy Share Image
If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The main goal is to increase diversity. The one thing that is bad for society is low diversity. This is true for… — George M. Church Copy Share Image
Don't you feel something magical when you're in love?... I do, I certainly do ... but I think that feeling of magic… — Alan Lightman Copy Share Image
Distinction between species and specimen is very much like the distinction between images and actual pictures, or, you know, objects that have… — W. J. T. Mitchell Copy Share Image
I fell asleep that night thinking about the kiss that might have been. What did a kiss feel like, anyway? Somehow I… — Wendelin Van Draanen Copy Share Image
Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
The first command given by God when Adam and Eve were pitched out of the Garden of Eden in the Book of… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
All of us are linear thinkers. We evolved in a world that was local and linear. You know, back 100,000, 200,000, millions… — Peter Diamandis Copy Share Image
Little Life Lesson 51: When selecting a member of a group to put on the Endangered Species List, it’s probably best not… — Michele Jaffe Copy Share Image
“We are experiencing changes across the full spectrum of our experience: to our bodies, our diet, our sleep, and so much more.… — Heather E. Heying Copy Share Image
A wedding is earth and water and a species of irreducible light and the flat belly of a harbor and a mango… — Mark McMorris Copy Share Image
We pride ourselves on being the only species that understands the concept of risk, yet we have a confounding habit of worrying… — Jeffrey Kluger Copy Share Image
The newspapers do little better. Their coverage of nonhuman animals is dominated by "human interest" events like the birth of a baby… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
Rumour has it that the gardens of natural history museums are used for surreptitious burial of those intermediate forms between species which… — David Lack Copy Share Image