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- Hurricane season brings a humbling reminder that, despite our technologies, most of nature remains unpredictable.
- All relationships change the brain - but most important are the intimate bonds that foster or fail us, altering the delicate circuits that shape memories,…
- As the most social apes, we inhabit a mirror-world in which every important relationship, whether with spouse, friend or child, shapes the brain, which in…
- For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins sledding downhill to…
- Humans are the most successful invasives of all time.
- Flying has changed how we imagine our planet, which we have seen whole from space, so that even the farthest nations are ecological neighbors. It…
- Love is the most important thing in our lives, a passion for which we would fight or die, and yet we're reluctant to linger over…
- Devising a vocabulary for gardening is like devising a vocabulary for sex. There are the correct Latin names, but most people invent euphemisms. Those who…
- Though most of us don't hunt, our eyes are still the great monopolists of our senses. To taste or touch your enemy or your food,…
- ...for most people in the [Jewish] Ghetto [of Warsaw] nature lived only in memory -- no parks, birds, or greenery existed in the Ghetto --…
- I'm an Earth ecstatic, and my creed is simple: All life is sacred, life loves life, and we are capable of improving our behavior toward…
More Most Quotes
- The sad truth is that most evil is done by people who never make up their minds to be good or evil. — Hannah Arendt
- The most radical revolutionary will become a conservative the day after the revolution. — 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 most perfect political community is one in which the middle class is in control, and outnumbers both of the other classes. — Aristotle
- Character may almost be called the most effective means of persuasion. — Aristotle
- The greatest virtues are those which are most useful to other persons. — Aristotle
- Of all the varieties of virtues, liberalism is the most beloved. — Aristotle
- For as the eyes of bats are to the blaze of day, so is the reason in our soul to the things… — Aristotle