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Man, whose organization is regarded as the highest, departs from the vertebrate archetype; and it is because the study of anatomy is…
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Geology differs as widely from cosmogony, as speculations concerning the creation of man differ from history.
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Geology is the science which investigates the successive changes that have taken place in the organic and inorganic kingdoms of nature; it…
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Millions of our race are now supported by lands situated where deep seas once prevailed in earlier ages. In many districts not…
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Notwithstanding, therefore, that we have not witnessed of a large continent, yet, as we may predict the future occurrence of such catastrophes,…
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There is no foundation in geological facts, for the popular theory of the successive development of the animal and vegetable world, from…
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[My Book] will endeavour to establish the principle[s] of reasoning in ... [geology]; and all my geology will come in as illustration…
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Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose…
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When the aggregate amount of solid matter transported by rivers in a given number of centuries from a large continent, shall be…
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So far from having a materialistic tendency, the supposed introduction into the earth at successive geological periods of life,-sensation,-instinct,-the intelligence of the…
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I may conclude this chapter by quoting a saying of Professor Agassiz, that whenever a new and startling fact is brought to…
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The earth's becoming at a particular period the residence of human beings, was an era in the moral, not in the physical…
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The practice of conservation must spring from a conviction of what is ethically and aesthetically right, as well as what is economically…
— Aldo Leopold
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The whole fauna of human fantasies, their marine vegetation, drifts and luxuriates in the dimly lit zones of human activity, as though…
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Strolling on, it seems to me that the strangeness and wonder of existence are emphasized here, in the desert, by the comparative…
— Edward Abbey
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Our difficulty is that we have become autistic. We no longer listen to what the Earth, its landscape, its atmospheric phenomena and…
— Thomas Berry
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Our bodies, apart from their brilliant role as drawing exercises, are the temples of our being. Like the bodies of all fauna,…
— Robert Genn
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I long ago suggested the hypothesis, that in the basin of the Thames there are indications of a meeting in the Pleistocene…
— Charles Lyell
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The problems to be faced are vast and complex, but come down to this: 6.6 billion people are breeding exponentially. The process…
— Paul Hawken
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A forest ecology is a delicate one. If the forest perishes, its fauna may go with it. The Athshean word for world…
— Ursula K. Le Guin
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Meditation is another dimension of natural beauty. People talk about appreciating natural beauty-climbing mountains, seeing giraffes and tigers in Africa, and all…
— Chogyam Trungpa
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If there is one beast in all the loathsome fauna of civilization I hate and despise it is a man of the…
— Henry Arthur Jones
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It seems to me absolutely true, that our world, which appears to us the surface of all things, is really the bottom…
— D. H. Lawrence
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For as long as I can remember, I have been passionately intrigued by 'Africa,' by the word itself, by its flora and…
— Henry Louis Gates
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