Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? ...… — Kenneth E. Boulding Copy Share Image
Our ancestors were eating meat over 2.5 million years ago. We mainly ate meat, fish, fruits, vegetables and nuts. We have to… — Lionel Tiger Copy Share Image
Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing… — Brian Skerry 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
Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
I have just finished my sketch of my species theory. If as I believe that my theory is true & if it… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Despite the campaign rhetoric, the bureaucracies-big business and big government-are here to stay. The centralization effort cannot be checked. but it can… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Golden eagles don't mate with bald eagles, deer don't mate with antelope, gray wolves don't mate with red wolves. Just look at… — Russell Means Copy Share Image
The Librarian considered matters for a while. So…a dwarf and a troll. He preferred both species to humans. For one thing, neither… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
We seem, these days, much more willing to recognize the perils before us than we were even a decade ago. The newly… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don't wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not… — John Green Copy Share Image
We know little of the consequences of the geoengineering process, such as spraying particles into the atmosphere that shade the planet from… — Graciela Chichilnisky Copy Share Image
I am a man, and men are animals who tell stories. This is a gift from God, who spoke our species into… — Clive Barker Copy Share Image
It occurred to me, in 1837, that something might perhaps be made of this question (the origin of the species) by patiently… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Has the God who made the white man and the black left any record declaring us a different species? Are we not… — James Forten Copy Share Image
There will come a time, when all of us are dead. All of us. There will come a time when there are… — John Green Copy Share Image
no more pep talks about believing in toads," Liza said. "Don't they turn into princeses when you kiss them?" Bonnie said. "Thats… — Jennifer Crusie Copy Share Image
In nature, creatures never ended the lives of others except to survive. To women, abortion was self-defense and preservation of the species.… — Ana Castillo Copy Share Image
I am really inspired when I am in an experience, at the front lines of conservation, and I see someone - a… — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
“Could it be that the atomic isolation of the husband and wife nucleus with an orbiting child or two is in fact… — Christopher Ryan Copy Share Image
Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
As a revelation from God, they have stood the test of many ages; and as such maintained their ground against every species… — Adam Clarke Copy Share Image
Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
I had nixed the idea of having children when I was myself a child, having learned in the 1960s that human overpopulation… — Sy Montgomery Copy Share Image
The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Passion is lifted from the earth itself by the muddy hands of the young; it travels along grass-stained sleeves to the heart.… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We,… — Michael Smith Copy Share Image
At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up,… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
The termination is not based on innocence or guilt, but on biology. The sociopath personality is fraudulent. They are impostors within the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Many genetically "altered" fish escape from the confines of the crowded floating concentration camps to mingle and mate with their wild fish… — Sharon Gannon Copy Share Image
When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to… — Donald Johanson Copy Share Image
Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image