Seeds have the power to preserve species, to enhance cultural as well as genetic diversity, to counter economic monopoly and to check… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Society turns away from the aged worker as though he belonged to another species. That is why the whole question is buried… — Simone de Beauvoir Copy Share Image
Sexual behavior in our species goes through three characteristic phases: pair formation, precopulatory activity, and copulation, usually but not always in that… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
The diversity of life on Earth, generally, is astonishing. But despite those large numbers, it's also important to recognize that every species,… — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
When it comes to wilderness animals we have to make an effort to preserve what areas we can that they can be… — Matthew Fox Copy Share Image
The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of… — William Tecumseh Sherman Copy Share Image
Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to… — Haruki Murakami Copy Share Image
At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes… — Paul Johnson Copy Share Image
Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
Do not focus too much on the east and forget the west. And do not ignore the south, to speak for the… — Suzy Kassem Copy Share Image
We lay on the ground and kissed. Perhaps you smile. That we only lay on the ground and kissed. You young people… — John Fowles Copy Share Image
Sybil's female forebears had valiantly backed up their husbands as distant embassies were besieged, had given birth on a camel or in… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
I don't measure success in numbers, but I consider my contributions of more than $1.3 billion to various causes over the years… — Ted Turner Copy Share Image
“Why do we so dread to think of our species as a species? Can it be that we are afraid of what… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
In the West, we got the message that it's not cool to wear ivory. It's not cool to utilize products from these… — Patrick Bergin Copy Share Image
One should not understand this compulsion to construct concepts, species, forms, purposes, laws ('a world of identical cases') as if they enabled… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Man desired concord; but nature knows better what is good for his species; she desires discord. Man wants to live easy and… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our… — Farley Mowat Copy Share Image
You're an interesting species. An interesting mix. You're capable of such beautiful dreams, and such horrible nightmares. You feel so lost, so… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
I think we're in a 1970s-level moment of social transition and they're always full of upheaval. As violent and deranged as we… — Eden Robinson Copy Share Image
...the gym is a kind of wildlife preserve for bodily exertion. A preserve protects species whose habitat is vanishing elsewhere, and the… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Life in the oceans must be sheer hell. A vast, merciless hell of permanent and immediate danger. So much of a hell… — Werner Herzog Copy Share Image
If you have appreciation for life, whether it is a planet or any wild species, if it's a human or an elephant,… — Veronika Varekova Copy Share Image
Throughout history, men have tried to play God by moving rabbits, goats, sparrows, mongooses, and a hundred other species to oceanic islands… — Victor Blanchard Scheffer Copy Share Image
We are animals, born from the land with the other species. Since we've been living in cities, we've become more and more… — Sebastiao Salgado Copy Share Image
The human species was too fond of lying, cheating, envy, ignorance, self-pity, self-righteousness, and utopian visions that always led to mass murder-but… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
There are as many species as the infinite being created diverse forms in the beginning, which, following the laws of generation, produced… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of… — Nick Bostrom Copy Share Image
We've discovered that the earth isn't flat; that we won't fall off its edges, and our experience as a species has changed… — Seth Copy Share Image
Most of us assume that human beings have free will. However, . . . [we] are very much conditioned by our species,… — Ravi Ravindra Copy Share Image
No matter how you care to define it, I do not identify with the local group. Planet, species, race, nation, state, religion,… — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece… — Kevin McCloud Copy Share Image
Maybe we need to fall on the common-sense side of protecting these species, but continue harvesting wood products we all use and… — John Hancock Copy Share Image
Environmentalists and secular humanists insist that humans will destroy the planet. Corporate capitalists and many religious fundamentalists have no regard for wildlife… — Zeena Schreck Copy Share Image
We are committed with our lives to building a different model and a different future for humanity, the Earth, and other species.… — Maude Barlow Copy Share Image
The sane understand that human beings are incapable of sustaining conspiracies on a grand scale, because some of our most defining qualities… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Public charities and benevolent associations for the gratuitous relief of every species of distress, are peculiar to Christianity; no other system of… — Charles Caleb Colton Copy Share Image
Man is more than merely an animal to exist and propagate his species. His mind gives him capacity to search out the… — Joseph Franklin Rutherford Copy Share Image
What little wilderness remains displays the patterns we must return to, if our species and as many others as now remain are… — Stephanie Mills Copy Share Image
The facts of variability, of the struggle for existence, of adaptation to conditions, were notorious enough; but none of us had suspected… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
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