Homo Quotes

109 quotes by 83 authors

In the end I came to see that the true prophet of the modern world was Samuel Butler: when he suggested that the machine was… — Robert Aickman
The complex human eye harvests light. It perceives seven to ten million colors through a synaptic flash: one-tenth of a second from retina to brain.… — Ellen Meloy
My favorite quote: The land ethic simply enlarges the boundaries of the community to include soils, waters, plants, and animals, or collectively: the land... In… — Aldo Leopold
Animals can be driven crazy by placing too many in too small a pen. Homo sapiens is the only animal that voluntarily does this to… — Robert A. Heinlein
I find it striking that the quality of the urban habitat of homo sapieans is so weakly researched compared to the habitats of gorillas, elephants,… — Jan Gehl
Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct. We don't know… — P.D. James
My single greatest challenge is to remain centered and loving in an overwhelmingly nonvegan world. In today's world, cruelty and exploitation of other beings -… — Michael Klaper
The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply. — Charlotte Perkins Gilman
Homo sapiens [are] a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree. — Stephen Jay Gould
Girls will get together just to get together. Guys need an activity as an excuse. Otherwise itâ€™s too homo for them to handle. — Megan McCafferty
But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another. — Jock Sturges
I will always admit immediately to what's obvious, which is that Homo sapiens is inherently erotic or inherently sensual from birth. — Jock Sturges
The Latin words humus, soil/earth, and homo, human being, have a common derivation, from which we also get our word 'humble.' This is the Genesis… — Eugene H. Peterson
It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might be Homo narrans,… — Henning Mankell
Possibly, over the course of time, the brain capacity of homo sapiens will have made such great progress, that complications as contained in this game… — Lodewijk Prins
Homo sapiens Yuck You contemporary fools laugh at religious and political lies spewed by sociopaths, lies that tether you forever to poverty and mediocrity. Yet,… — Unknown Author
There's no particular evidence that any of the lower mammals or any of the other animals have any interest in aesthetics at all. But Homo… — Jock Sturges
It took nature 100 million years to make the ape stand up and become Homo sapiens. It took us only 10,000 to make knowing obsolete. — Sugata Mitra
RATTLESNAKE, n. Our prostrate brother, "Homo ventrambulans". — Ambrose Bierce
We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction. — Stephen Jay Gould

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