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- Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that…
- The time has come to link ecology to economic and human development. When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not…
- Science is not marginal. Like art, it is a universal possession of humanity, and scientific knowledge has become a vital part of our species' repertory.…
- Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it…
- Consider the nematode roundworm, the most abundant of all animals. Four out of five animals on Earth are nematode worms — if all solid materials…
- When all else fails, men turn to reason.
- Nature first, then theory. Or, better, Nature and theory closely intertwined while you throw all your intellectual capital at the subject. Love the organisms for…
- Search until you find a passion and go all out to excel in its expression.
- Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.
- If religion and science could be united on the common ground of biological conservation, the problem would be soon solved. If there is any moral…
- The commitment must be much deeper - to let no species knowingly die; to take all reasonable action to protect every species and race in…
- It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in…
- We need freedom to roam across land owned by no one but protected by all, whose unchanging horizon is the same that bounded the world…
- You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the…
- If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects…
- When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
- Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really…
- Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
- All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.
- It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.
- The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
- Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they've had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world…
- Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in…
- It often occurs to me that if, against all odds, there is a judgmental God and heaven, it will come to pass that when the…
- Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our behavior, to our…
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- Total loyalty is possible only when fidelity is emptied of all concrete content, from which changes of mind might naturally arise. — Hannah Arendt
- No cause is left but the most ancient of all, the one, in fact, that from the beginning of our history has… — Hannah Arendt
- The ultimate end of human acts is eudaimonia, happiness in the sense of living well, which all men desire; all acts are… — Hannah Arendt
- The new always happens against the overwhelming odds of statistical laws and their probability, which for all practical, everyday purposes amounts to… — Hannah Arendt
- Where all are guilty, no one is; confessions of collective guilt are the best possible safeguard against the discovery of culprits, and… — Hannah Arendt
- We have almost succeeded in leveling all human activities to the common denominator of securing the necessities of life and providing for… — Hannah Arendt
- I keep my friends as misers do their treasure, because, of all the things granted us by wisdom, none is greater or… — Pietro Aretino
- We must all make peace so that we can all live in peace. — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- The spirit of Ubuntu, that once led Haiti to emerge as the first independent black nation in 1804, helped Venezuela, Colombia and… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- As we all know, many people remain buried under tons of rubble and debris, waiting to be rescued. When we think of… — Jean-Bertrand Aristide
- Wise people, even though all laws were abolished, would still lead the same life. — Aristophanes
- A friend to all is a friend to none. — Aristotle