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If they [enlightened men] take any interest in examining, in the infancy of our species, the almost obliterated traces of so many nations that have…

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The observer listens to nature: the experimenter questions and forces her to reveal herself.
It is to them [fossils] alone that we owe the commencement of even a Theory of the Earth ... By them we…
At the sight of a single bone, of a single piece of bone, I recognize and reconstruct the portion of the whole…
Nurse, it was I who discovered that leeches have red blood.[]On his deathbed when the nurse came to apply leeches
It is in this mutual dependence of the functions and the aid which they reciprocally lend one another that are founded the…
In spite of what moralists say, the, animals are scarcely less wicked or less unhappy than we are ourselves. The arrogance of…
The traces of upheavals become more impressive when one moves a little higher, when one gets even closer to the foot of…
My object will be, first, to show by what connections the history of the fossil bones of land animals is linked to…
It is evident that one cannot say anything demonstrable about the problem before having resolved these preliminary questions, and yet we hardly…
Secondly, the nature of the revolutions which have altered the surface of the earth must have had a more decisive effect on…
It has been long considered possible to explain the more ancient revolutions on... the Earth surface by means of these still existing…
It is my object, in the following work, to travel over ground which has as yet been little explored and to make…

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If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct. — Peter Benchley
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It is the law of love that rules mankind. Had violence, i.e. hate, rules us we would have become extinct long ago.… — Mahatma Gandhi
Christians are a lot like dinosaurs - about to become extinct. — Marilyn Manson
The Celts were fearless warriors because they wish to inculcate this as one of their leading tenets, that souls do not become… — Julius Caesar
I have never really got used to being on this earth. Sometimes I think our presence here is due to a cosmic… — John Banville
That which is useless dies. Animals that fail to serve some useful purpose in the scheme of things slowly but surely become… — B. C. Forbes
We are the intelligent elite among animal life on earth and whatever our mistakes, [Earth] needs us. This may seem an odd… — James Lovelock
Even though we may all become extinct, we can still leave our footprint in the sand. — Dr. Seuss

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