When you think about it, if the fittest always won, all forests should be completely homogeneous. One species should supplant all others… — Joel A. Barker Copy Share Image
Human reason has this peculiar fate that in one species of its knowledge it is burdened by questions which, as prescribed by… — Immanuel Kant Copy Share Image
When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is… — Jane Goodall Copy Share Image
The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.6 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
The Ocean Health Index is like the thermometer of the ocean. It will allow us to take the temperature to know what… — Enric Sala Copy Share Image
Women are made to be led, and counseled, and directed…And if I am not a good man, I have no just right… — Heber C. Kimball Copy Share Image
I don't accept subtractive models of love, only additive ones. And I believe that in the same way we need species diversity… — Andrew Solomon Copy Share Image
If thou art able, O stranger, to find out all these things and gather them together in your mind, giving all the… — Ivor Bulmer-Thomas Copy Share Image
“Pardon me, sir," Prudence said, directing her words and her placid gaze precisely at Professor Peck, "if I understand you correctly, it… — Elizabeth Gilbert Copy Share Image
Let us suppose that we have laid on the table... [a] piece of glass... and let us homologize this glass to a… — Leon Croizat Copy Share Image
To dissociate the child from love is, for our species, a methodological error: contraception, which is to make love without making a… — Jerome Lejeune Copy Share Image
It has been demonstrated that a species of penicillium produces in culture a very powerful antibacterial substance which affects different bacteria in… — Alexander Fleming Copy Share Image
The Doctor: The Fourth Great and Bountiful Human Empire. And there it is: planet Earth at its height. Covered with megacities, five… — Russell T Davies Copy Share Image
Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
Both ground- rents and the ordinary rent of land are a species of revenue which the owner, in many cases, enjoys without… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're at risk of losing this iconic species for all time. Once it's stripped of its natural instincts, it's no longer a… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
Peace is something that we can bring about if we can actually learn to wake up a bit more as individuals and… — Jon Kabat-Zinn Copy Share Image
It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways,… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
There are so many ways to characterize evolutionary success. If one criterion is the number of millions of years that the species… — Greg Graffin Copy Share Image
Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
My weirdness aside, if I am to find any friends, particularly a girlfriend, she will almost certainly have to be a human.… — Jon Richardson Copy Share Image
Humans are a social species more than any other, and in order to build a community, which for some reason humans have… — Daniel Everett Copy Share Image
Man makes history; woman is history. The reproduction of the species is feminine: it runs steadily and quietly through all species, animal… — Oswald Spengler Copy Share Image
You begin paying more attention to what you're seeing when you know the names... If you don't know the names of plant… — Robert Bateman Copy Share Image
I try to be realistic and pragmatic. I have a lot of hope for humanity as a species, but obviously as individuals… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Humans are a young species, and my little life abides in a very big place, where epochs glide by as swiftly as… — Sallie Tisdale Copy Share Image
Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown… — Carl Linnaeus Copy Share Image
Science is one of a handful of things that defines us as a very special species. It is amazing how far we… — Yuri Milner Copy Share Image
In every advanced mammalian species that survives and thrives, a common anthropological characteristic is the fierce behavior of the adult female of… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability… — Harriet Lerner Copy Share Image
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. And this is… — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
The most terrifying fact about the universe is not that it is hostile but that it is indifferent, but if we can… — Stanley Kubrick Copy Share Image
Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and those fellow mortals who share with us the sun… — Jon Wynne-Tyson Copy Share Image
Everything comes to an end. A good bottle of wine, a summer’s day, a long-running sitcom, one’s life, and eventually our species.… — Jasper Fforde Copy Share Image
My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
In a world where so much that is wild and free has been lost to us, we must leave these beautiful animals… — Ric O'Barry Copy Share Image
We live in a permanent state of bad faith, a mutual representation of ourselves to one another for the sake of remaining… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
We have environmental laws for a reason: to protect endangered biodiversity. And as a country that has one of the highest loss… — Richard Di Natale Copy Share Image
In my work I try to reach and speak to that innocence, showing it the fun and joy of living; showing it… — Walt Disney Copy Share Image