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... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly do all changes… — Henry Walter Bates
[My work as a photographer is a] mission to document endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving. — Joel Sartore
We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in… — Yvon Chouinard
It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save species, we're actually… — Joel Sartore
Virtually every major technological advance in the history of the human species - back to the invention of stone tools and the domestication of fire… — Carl Sagan
There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence can lead to a sustainable… — Unknown Author
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true order. It is… — Henri Frederic Amiel
American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order of dominance is… — Margaret Mead
The insanity of the collective egoic mind, amplified by science and technology, is rapidly taking our species to the brink of disaster. Evolve or die:… — Eckhart Tolle
Instead of boiling up individuals into the species, I would draw a chalk circle round every individuality, and preach to it to keep within that,… — Jane Welsh Carlyle
In less than eight years "The Origin of Species" has produced conviction in the minds of a majority of the most eminent living men of… — Alfred Russel Wallace
Asperger's syndrome has probably been an important and valuable characteristic of our species throughout evolution. — Tony Attwood
Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown in population, technology… — Paul MacCready
I loathed the game, and since I could see no pleasure or usefulness in it, it was very difficult for me to show courage at… — George Orwell
An now the silences come in a single lifetime, in a single year... when species die, leaving a silent space in the world song that… — Charles de Lint
No man has received from nature the right to give orders to others. Freedom is a gift from heaven, and every individual of the same… — Denis Diderot
To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. — Charles Caleb Colton
We have no organ at all for knowledge, for truth: we know (or believe or imagine) precisely as much as may be useful in the… — Friedrich Nietzsche
The oceans are the planet's last great living wilderness, man's only remaining frontier on earth, and perhaps his last chance to produce himself a rational… — Unknown Author
Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves… — Lewis Thomas
Sir Guy Campbell's classic account of the formation of the links, beginning with Genesis and moving step by step to the thrilling arrival of 'tilth'… — Alistair Cooke
Bad taste is a species of bad morals. — Christian Nestell Bovee
We are an intelligent species and the use of our intelligence quite properly gives us pleasure. In this respect the brain is like a muscle.… — Carl Sagan
Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It is these that… — Maria Montessori
Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that… — E. O. Wilson

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