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Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
I walked down Paseo del Prado, losing myself to the sights, sounds, and dense magic of the city. There's something weirdly calming… — Kate Klise Copy Share Image
But we are as other men, exactly. Of one blood, one species, one brain, one figure, one fundamental set of collective instincts,… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
Each of these [bacterial] species are masterpieces of evolution. Each has persisted for thousands to millions of years. Each is exquisitely adapted… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Conscience is the still small voice that has been trying since the infancy of our species to tell us that we are… — Martha Stout Copy Share Image
A new space race has begun, and most Americans are not even aware of it. This race is not [about] political prestige… — Ben Bova Copy Share Image
The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that… — Douglas J. Futuyma Copy Share Image
Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation,… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
From a human point of view, the difference between the mind of a human and that of a mountain goat is wonderful;… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
As a species, we're not only wired to choose today over tomorrow, but we hate to feel like we're losing out on… — Tony Robbins Copy Share Image
Fortunately for me, I ran across some girls I could get along with so I could enjoy high school life okay, but… — Natsuo Kirino Copy Share Image
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I believe that we are a story-driven species and that we understand how things are put together, in the context of narrative.… — Ann Druyan Copy Share Image
Kitsch is: a species of beauty, which, as it is florid and superficial, pleases at first; but soon palls upon the taste,… — David Hume Copy Share Image
It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It… — Jim Saxton Copy Share Image
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No magic bullet, not even the Internet, can save us from population explosion, deforestation, climate disruption, poison by pollution, and wholesale extinction… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Nobody, I believe, will deny, that we are to form our judgment of the true nature of the human mind, not from… — Robert B. Leighton Copy Share Image
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Human beings any one of us, and our species as a whole are not all-important, not at the center of the world.… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
Eurasia's main axis is east/west, whereas the main axis of the Americas is north/south. Eurasia's east/west axis meant that species domesticated in… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any… — Yochai Benkler Copy Share Image
On an overcrowded planet where more species slip toward extinction every day, should one species have the right to multiply and consume… — Thomas French Copy Share Image
In the human species at all events there is a great diversity of pleasures. The same things delight some men and annoy… — Aristotle Copy Share Image
If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their… — L. David Mech Copy Share Image
The Earth itself is stepping in to aid in the agenda of cultural transformation. There are too many doorways in nature that… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. ... The insects, not man or other proud species, are really… — H. Bentley Glass Copy Share Image
In other words, people should be placed in parks within ecosystems instead of parks placed in human communities. We need vast areas… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
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In the world which we know, among the different and primitive geniuses that preside over the evolution of the several species, there… — Maurice Maeterlinck Copy Share Image
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