Life is neither static nor unchanging. With no individuality, there can be no change, no adaptation and, in an inherently changing world,… — Jean M. Auel Copy Share Image
Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea… — George Mason Copy Share Image
We are at a point in human evolution when human solidarity on a global scale is absolutely vital for the survival of… — Petra Kelly Copy Share Image
For too long we have placed an irrational burden upon our oceans by demanding only a narrow selection of species, which has… — Barton Seaver Copy Share Image
We are suffering today from a species of Christianity as dry as dust, as cold as ice, as pale as a corpse,… — Vance Havner Copy Share Image
If you can unify the public mind saving an iconic species like the tiger, like they did with the panda, that means… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
This planet has rejuvenated itself over and over again. Its species are just witnesses. [Earth] is going to reclaim itself once it… — Seth Green Copy Share Image
We wonder, how do you instruct seven billion people as to the relationship to the Earth? Because unless they understand that, and… — Oren Lyons Copy Share Image
Parasites are not only incredibly diverse; they are also incredibly successful. There are parasitic stretches of DNA in your own genes, some… — Carl Zimmer Copy Share Image
That's the way to get young people. Once they see there are wonderful things to hunt for, to rediscover a species that… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Very little comes easily to our poor, benighted species (the first creature, after all, to experiment with the novel evolutionary inventions of… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
The widespread abuse of prisoners is a virtually foolproof indication that politicians are trying to impose a system--whether political, religious or economic--that… — Naomi Klein Copy Share Image
Humans lived for several million years as fully wild beings: only in the last 10, 000 did we invent agriculture; only in… — Simon Barnes Copy Share Image
Perhaps it won't matter, in the end, which country is the sower of the seed of exploration. The importance will be in… — Neil Armstrong Copy Share Image
In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent… — Alfred Russel Wallace Copy Share Image
We recognize that our progress as a species does not have to be defined in terms of wealth or material and physical… — Wes Jackson Copy Share Image
For what is history, but... huge libel on human nature, to which we industriously add page after page, volume after volume, as… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
Poetry, song, stories, art, our reverence for nature, are key to our survival as a species, and to the survival of all… — Michael Tobias Copy Share Image
It is natural selection that gives direction to changes, orients chance, and slowly, progressively produces more complex structures, new organs, and new… — Francois Jacob Copy Share Image
Since we proposed punctuated equilibria to explain trends, it is infuriating to be quoted again and again by creationists-whether through design or… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
I am a big believer of what Darwin discovered in the Galapagos, proving that the species most responsive to change will survive… — John Elkann Copy Share Image
One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If you based your knowledge of the human species exclusively on adverts, you'd think that the normal condition of humanity was to… — Francis Spufford Copy Share Image
All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look… — Aleister Crowley Copy Share Image
We are evolving as one species - not only as Americans, Syrians, Russians, Chinese, and jihadists. We cannot attack one without inflicting… — Gary Zukav Copy Share Image
The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals… — Nicholas A. Christakis Copy Share Image
I still feel like a castaway, th elast of a once numerous species. It was as though Robinson Crusoe discovered the telltale… — Audrey Niffenegger Copy Share Image
Shower on him every blessing, drown him in a sea of happiness, give him economic prosperity such that he should have nothing… — Fyodor Dostoevsky Copy Share Image
Actually, however, life begins less by reaching upward, than by turning upon itself. But what a marvelously insidious, subtle image of life… — Gaston Bachelard Copy Share Image
The one thing prostitution is not is a 'victimless crime.' It attracts a wide species of preying criminals and generates a long… — Gail Sheehy Copy Share Image
The parallel circumstances and kindred images to which we readily conform our minds are, above all other writings, to be found in… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
It's never enjoyable watching yourself. Because you're never as good looking as you hope you are. You're not expecting to be Penelope… — Anne-Marie Duff Copy Share Image
“The program of the ruling elite in Orwell's 1984 was: "A foot stamping on a human face forever!" This is naive and… — William S. Burroughs Copy Share Image
I think that what one can see from a Darwinian account is how the addition of culture in our species turns us… — Daniel Dennett Copy Share Image
Actually, the highest form of human organization is not realized in the democratic individual. It is realized in a dimension none of… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Each of us is several, is many,is a profusion of selves. So that the self who disdains his surroundings is not the… — Fernando Pessoa Copy Share Image
“I was familiar with humans at this point only from afar, but even from there, I found them a pitiable species: scaleless,… — Patrick Jennings Copy Share Image
Many people love grey squirrels, but the reality is that they are a real problem for some of our most threatened native… — Jim Knight Copy Share Image
“Λαθράνθρωπος, οι = ἂνθρωπος/οι, που λαθραῖα συν~κατα~λέγονται στο εἲδος των ἀνθρῶπων ~ Lathranthrope, Lathranthropes = the person or persons that get smuggled into being included within the Human species neology by Ale3ia” — Ale3ia Copy Share Image
Around the world today we're seeing an incredible transformation, from what I would call a biocidal species, one that - whether we… — Jane Poynter Copy Share Image