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Creatures Quotes by Charles Darwin
- Believing as I do that man in the distant future will be a far more perfect creature than he now is, it is an intolerable…
- The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly…
- Of all the differences between man and the lower animals, the moral sense or conscience is by far the most important . . . [I]t…
- Consequently, if my theory be true, it is indisputable that before the lowest Silurian stratum was deposited, long periods elapsed, as long as, or probably…
- It may be doubted that there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world as have…
- It is often said that all the conditions for the first production of a living organism are now present, which could have ever been present.…
- The love of a dog for his master is notorious; in the agony of death he has been known to caress his master, and everyone…
- The love for all living creatures is the most noble attribute of man.
- We cannot fathom the marvelous complexity of an organic being; but on the hypothesis here advanced this complexity is much increased. Each living creature must…
- Man with all his noble qualities, with sympathy which feels for the most debased, with benevolence which extends not only to other men but to…
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- Cameramen are among the most extraordinarily able and competent people I know. They have to have an insight into natural history that… — David Attenborough
- All artists dream of a silence which they must enter, as some creatures return to the sea to spawn. — Iris Murdoch
- None of God's Creatures absolutely consider'd are in their own Nature Contemptible; the meanest Fly, the poorest Insect has its Use and… — Mary Astell
- Unlike any other creature on this planet, humans can learn and understand, without having experienced. They can think themselves into other people's… — Joanne Kathleen Rowling
- I love movies with spectacle but spectacle can be a performance, it doesn't have to be a creature. — J. J. Abrams
- If you have men who will exclude any of God's creatures from the shelter of compassion and pity, you will have men… — Francis of Assisi
- Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the… — David Attenborough
- To be sure, the response of faith to revelation, which God grants to the creature he chooses and moves with his love,… — Hans Urs von Balthasar