The dragons I would write about would not be the rather generalized, big, green things that I had read about in storybooks.… — Cressida Cowell Copy Share Image
The intuitive connection children feel with animals can be a tremendous source of joy. The unconditional love received from pets, and the… — Frans de Waal Copy Share Image
I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The Awa are a distinctive-looking, diminutive forest people, smaller than any of the dozen other Amazon tribespeople I have met. Reduced size… — Alex Shoumatoff Copy Share Image
The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of… — John Lawson Copy Share Image
The juke joint, the honky tonk, and the ballroom also represent one more thing, anthropologically speaking: a ceremonial context for the male-with-female-duet… — Albert Murray Copy Share Image
I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“Just as a concept becomes a unit when integrated with others into a wider concept, so a genus becomes a single unit,… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
The natural historian is not a fisherman who prays for cloudy days and good luck merely; but as fishing has been styled… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
Feminist art is not some tiny creek running off the great river of real art. It is not some crack in an… — Andrea Dworkin Copy Share Image
As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last,… — Orson Scott Card Copy Share Image
We [people] have the power to destroy ourselves as well as the environment. As a species we love what I'd call brinks-person-ship,… — Richard Bach Copy Share Image
Only man is a narcissistic enough species to think that a highly evolved alien life force would travel across billions and billions… — Dennis Miller Copy Share Image
Suicide is a crime the most revolting to the feelings; nor does any reason suggest itself to our understanding by which it… — Napoleon Bonaparte Copy Share Image
[monkeys] are used only when no other species and no alternatice approach can provide the answers to questions about such conditions as… — Colin Blakemore Copy Share Image
We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Those words, temperate and moderate, are words either of political cowardice, or of cunning, or seduction. A thing, moderately good is not… — Thomas Paine Copy Share Image
The dull people decided years and years ago, as everyone knows, that novel-writing was the lowest species of literary exertion, and that… — Wilkie Collins Copy Share Image
Sports exact too harsh a toll on our beautiful women. Like engendered species, they should be protected, and instead, we exploit them… — Kevin Bleyer Copy Share Image
I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in… — P. D. James Copy Share Image
The desire to create continually is vulgar and betrays jealousy, envy, ambition. If one is something one really does not need to… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. If you're interested in the cake, you… — Mary McCarthy Copy Share Image
The fundamental problem in the origin of species is not the origin of differences in appearance, since these arise at the level… — David Lack Copy Share Image
Man should regard lower animals as being in the same dependent condition as minors under his government ... For a man to… — Ed Buckner Copy Share Image
At least 260 species of animal have been noted exhibiting homosexual behavior but only one species of animal ever, so far as… — Stephen Fry Copy Share Image
When most of us hear the phrase, 'survival of the fittest,' we assume it originated with Charles Darwin. It did not. The… — Joel A. Barker Copy Share Image
But we must here state that we should not see anything if there were a vacuum. But this would not be due… — Roger Bacon Copy Share Image
The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're smart enough to know we need to live in groups to survive, but we're still animals and we needs lots of… — Julia Phillips Copy Share Image
Each species may have had its origin in a single pair, or individual, where an individual was sufficient, and species may have… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
It struck me what we should be trying to do was pluck the egg from the ovary and fertilise it in the… — Robert Edwards Copy Share Image
Whoever is led to believe that species are mutable will do good service by conscientiously expressing his conviction; for only thus can… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Men and women are brothers and sisters; they are not of different species; and what need be obtained to know both, but… — Samuel Richardson Copy Share Image
I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be.… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Gaming is a vice the more dangerous as it is deceitful; and, contrary to every other species of luxury, flatters its votaries… — Henry Fielding Copy Share Image
Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Who speaks of art speaks of poetry. There is not art without a poetic aim. There is a species of emotion particular… — Edouard Vuillard 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