Primeval Quotes

48 quotes by 47 authors

The three great elemental sounds in nature are the sound of rain, the sound of wind in a primeval wood, and the sound of outer… — Henry Beston
The roots of our Soccer Tribe lie deep in our primeval past. — Desmond Morris
The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere. — E. O. Wilson
This is the forest primeval. The murmuring pines and the hemlocks, Bearded with moss, and in garments green, indistinct in the twilight, Stand like Druids… — Henry Wadsworth Longfellow
I speak the password primeval; I give the sign of democracy. — Walt Whitman
Among the scenes which are deeply impressed on my mind, none exceed in sublimity the primeval [tropical] forests, ... temples filled with the varied productions… — Charles Darwin
Beauty is a primeval phenomenon, which itself never makes its appearance, but the reflection of which is visible in a thousand different utterances of the… — Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind.... Furthermore, no geological evidence indicates an organic… — Fred Hoyle
After chiding the theologian for his reliance on myth and miracle, science found itself in the unenviable position of having to create mythology of its… — Loren Eiseley
We do not live in a time when knowledge can be extended along a pathway smooth and free from obstacles, as at the time of… — Heinrich Burkhardt
The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000).... It is big enough… — Fred Hoyle
It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup from its kind. — A. E. Wilder-Smith
Beauty is composed of many things and never stands alone. It is part of horizons, blue in the distance, great primeval silences, knowledge of all… — Sigurd F. Olson
War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you. — Frank Herbert
Our primeval Mother Earth is an organism that no science in the world can rationalize. Everything on her that crawls and flies is dependent upon… — Viktor Schauberger
The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven's croak, is one of… — G. M. Trevelyan
The unrecorded past is none other than our old friend, the tree in the primeval forest which fell without being heard — Barbara Tuchman
It is necessary to recover the primeval force of the shock taking place at the moment when opposite a man (the viewer) there stood for… — Tadeusz Kantor
The choice, as Wells once said, is the Universe-or nothing. . . . The challenge of the great spaces between the worlds is a stupendous… — Arthur C. Clarke
Organic chemistry just now is enough to drive one mad. It gives me the impression of a primeval forest full of the most remarkable things,… — Friedrich Wohler

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