Every native species, however humble in appearance...has its place in the nation's heritage. It is a masterpiece of evolution, an ancient, multifaceted… — E. O. Wilson 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
In democratic centuries, on the contrary, when the duties of each individual toward the species are much clearer, devotion toward one man… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
he issue of inequality in this country [USA], and the ways that money has captured our political system, are serious indicators of… — Cynthia Kauffman Copy Share Image
I would say that for the sake of human progress, the best thing we could possibly do would be to diminish, to… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth… — Delia Sherman Copy Share Image
My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness,… — David Foreman Copy Share Image
Of course he would count the time that we'd been two entirely different species. — Maggie Stiefvater Copy Share Image
The usual sniggering examples of animal behaviour were brought in to explain cheating. Funny how the behaviour of shrews and gibbons is… — A. A. Gill Copy Share Image
There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
The oldest continuously operated aquarium in the country features 630 species and more than 8,000 animals. The walruses are especially popular. — John Grant Copy Share Image
The basic problem with the new species of global institutions is that they have not yet become aware of themselves as living.… — Betty Sue Flowers Copy Share Image
I think like the species I am studying, whatever it is. If I am watching a lizard, I become the lizard. Gazing… — Desmond Morris Copy Share Image
...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration. — Michael Ignatieff Copy Share Image
When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign… — Neil Young Copy Share Image
The classical argument for why a supposedly decent and moral creature like Homo sapiens can mistreat and even extirpate other species rests… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species. — Sylvia Earle Copy Share Image
How can one say, 'No, this isn't a part of life,' since it always is? The contaminant of sex, the redeeming corruption… — Philip Roth Copy Share Image
Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not… — Alan Dean Foster Copy Share Image
Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Tho' there be no such Thing as Chance in the World; our Ignorance of the real Ccause of any Event has the… — David Hume Copy Share Image
From the physician, as emphatically the student of Nature, is expected not only an inquiry into cause, but an investigation of the… — John Gorrie Copy Share Image
Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience. — Jon Winokur Copy Share Image