Animal Quote by Benjamin Van Roy

“Eighty-five percent of recorded species live in the terrestrial realm, and the majority of these, some 850,000, are arthropods (that is, insects, spiders, and…

— Richard E. Leakey

In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men…

— Alfred Russel Wallace

Each creature both great and small has evolved after millions of years of evolution serving an integrated and important part in the ecological balance…

— Amala Akkineni

“Tackled some giant, burrowing beetles the other week, if you can believe that…. At that stage I didn’t know about it either – only…

— Mark Speed

There's no posterity to write for. I'm writing now for mutated arthropods.

— Peter Reading

“If you imagine the 4,500-bilion-odd years of Earth's history compressed into a normal earthly day, then life begins very early, about 4 A.M., with…

— Bill Bryson

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

— Peter R. Grant

“Nature is the birthright of everyone on Earth. The millions of species we have allowed to survive are our phylogenetic kin. Their long-term history…

— Edward O. Wilson

“The known is finite, the unknown infinite; intellectually we stand on an islet in the midst of an illimitable ocean of inexplicability. Our business…

— Thomas Henry Huxley

“But if they’re all rigid and stiff, then how do they move at all? Ahhh, that’s where the joints come in. The stiff shells…

— Anonymous

Whether you understand they evolved over billions of years or believe that a God made them all one afternoon, please be kind to animals.

— Ricky Gervais

In a purely technical sense, each species of higher organism-beetle, moss, and so forth, is richer in information than a Caravaggio painting, Mozart symphony,…

— E. O. Wilson