We invest far off places with a certain romance... Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game; none of them lasts for… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The pursuit of knowledge is an intoxicant, a lure that scientists and explorers have known from ancient times; indeed, exhilaration in the… — Kay Redfield Jamison Copy Share Image
I care far more how humanity lives than how long. Progress, for me, means increasing goodness and happiness of individual lives. For… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Looking around, I thought the human species was in fine shape and tried to think of something more beautiful than women and… — Pat Conroy Copy Share Image
In every part of the universe we observe means adjusted with the nicest artifice to the ends which they are intended to… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
When you look at the consequences of climate change, at rainforest deforestation, at antibiotic resistance, these are not necessarily political issues, but… — Moby Copy Share Image
And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
He who does not realize to what extent shifting fortune and necessity hold in subjection every human spirit, cannot regard as fellow-creatures… — Simone Weil Copy Share Image
High quality water is more than the dream of the conservationists, more than a political slogan; high quality water, in the right… — Richard Bangs Copy Share Image
My Prime Minister regards the economy as our highest priority and forgets that economics and ecology are derived from the same Greek… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
In the history of the world the prize has not gone to those species which specialized in methods of violence, or even… — Alfred North Whitehead Copy Share Image
We are living in a very pivotal time. The time that we inherit from science is a time to humble you, to… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Sharks have everything a scientist dreams of. They're beautiful―God, how beautiful they are! They're like an impossibly perfect piece of machinery. They're… — Peter Benchley Copy Share Image
I saw that animals were important. I saw that plants were even more important. I was also to learn that compared to… — Elizabeth Marshall Thomas Copy Share Image
As some species of plants need to be burned to the ground in order for them to later flourish, I needed to… — Xeno Muller Copy Share Image
Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
When you see someone dying in front of you from a direct and simple cause, it's easier to deal with [that] than… — John H Richardson Copy Share Image
It has sometimes been said that the success of the Origin proved "that the subject was in the air," or "that men's… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
To think that humans evolved from lower species BUT the evolutionary process somehow came to a halt and we all arrived at… — Jim Goad Copy Share Image
To the eyes of a god, mankind must appear as a species of bacteria which multiply and become progressively virulent whenever they… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
As the romance of manned space exploration has waned, the drive today is to find our living, thinking counterparts in the universe.… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
You know what we need to heal are the thought forms and the feelings that cause us to create war and mass… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
The varying modes of flight exhibited by our diurnal birds of prey have always been to me a subject of great interest,… — John James Audubon Copy Share Image
From the Old Testament, containing the Atlantean Mystery teaching, we learn that mankind was created male-female, bi-sexual, and that each one was… — Max Heindel Copy Share Image
Sickness is the natural state in which we humans reside. We occasionally fall into brief brackets of health, only to return to… — Lauren Slater Copy Share Image
I firmly believe that contemporary spiritual use of entheogenic drugs is one of humankind's brightest hopes for overcoming the ecological crisis from… — Jonathan Ott Copy Share Image
In all mammalian species that have so far been carefully studied, the rate at which their members engage in the killing of… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
If we don't change, if the egoic consciousness continues, I don't believe that humanity as a species can survive, or at least… — Eckhart Tolle Copy Share Image
When I view all beings not as special creations, but as the lineal descendants of some few beings which lived long before… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People… — Dianne Feinstein Copy Share Image
The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind.… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
It will be possible, through the detailed determination of amino-acid sequences of hemoglobin molecules and of other molecules too, to obtain much… — Linus Pauling Copy Share Image
When you know what the male species is looking for - 'I'm not into a redhead,' 'I don't want a fat chick,'… — Patti Stanger Copy Share Image
Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are… — Theodore C. Sorensen Copy Share Image
Even to this day, no native Australian animal species and only one plant species-the macadamia nut-have proved suitable for domestication. There still… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Measles and TB evolved from diseases of our cattle, influenza from a disease of pigs, and smallpox possibly from a disease of… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
It is understood that nonhuman creatures adapt to their places or they don't live. And for some reason that I can't figure… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
![“And [now] I think I’ll probably write a lot about birds. My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I’ve hung bird feeders … for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that.” quote by Julia Cameron](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/4de/julia-cameron-830_bird_and-now-i-think-i-ll-probably-write-a-lo_2430321.jpg)
![“When you see someone dying in front of you from a direct and simple cause, it's easier to deal with [that] than famine or drought or a more indirect cause. It's overwhelming and frightening and kind of distant, but we do see it every day with plants and animals and species dying.” quote by John H Richardson](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/d1d/john-h-richardson-38485_animal_when-you-see-someone-dying-in-front-of-y_1998991.jpg)
