Ambitious Quote by Bill Bryson

But what is life to a lichen ? Yet its impulse to exist, to be, is every bit as strong as ours arguably even…

— Bill Bryson

Algae are such basic, simple organisms.

— Jamie Hyneman

The vast majority of terrestrial species are in fact microbes, and scientists have only begun scratching the surface of the microbial realm. It is…

— Paul Davies

Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms — if all solid…

— E. O. Wilson

Look at the bark of a redwood, and you see moss. If you peer beneath the bits and pieces of the moss, you'll see…

— Sylvia Earle

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

— E. O. Wilson

Often what is nearest is hardest of all to see - try asking a fish to define water. Distance opens a door to revelation.…

— Vicki Goldberg

Never to have seen anything but the temperate zone is to have lived on the fringe of the world. Between the Tropic of Capricorn…

— David Fairchild

People are not the only interesting organism on earth. From the point of view of scientific or commercial value, there are lots of interesting…

— Daniel Nathans

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, but the one most responsive to change.

— Charles Darwin

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change.

— Anonymous

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