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Wallace's sales agent, back in London, heard mutterings from some naturalists that young Mr. Wallace ought to quit theorizing and stick to…
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[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as…
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Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.
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Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting…
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Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.
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The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.
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Islands are where species go to die.
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Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered…
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Heatstroke is an important and useful addition to the library on climate change, bringing insights from deep-time ecological research to help illuminate…
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To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something…
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By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.
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Whether you like the label 'Anthropocene' or not, whether you find the prospect of what it signifies inevitable or appalling (or both),…
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All the intelligence and talent in the world can't make a singer. The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred…
— Willa Cather
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You mustnt give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get.
— Audrey Hepburn
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You mustn’t give your heart to a wild thing. The more you do, the stronger they get, until they’re strong enough to…
— Holly Golightly
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A wild thing may say wild things.
— Abigail Williams
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To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something…
— David Quammen
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Inside all of us is HOPE. Inside all of us is FEAR. Inside all of us is ADVENTURE. Inside all of us…
— Maurice Sendak
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The voice is a wild thing. It can't be bred in captivity.
— Willa Cather
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I've never seen a wild thing feel sorry for itself.
— D. H. Lawrence
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A lot of people think Major League's called Wild Thing. As they should.
— Charlie Sheen
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Usually when I'm out doing stuff, I'm just out in the wild, doing the wild thing. I don't really get a chance…
— Bootsy Collins
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He licked his bowl and he looked at me, and then he did the wild thing on my leg.
— Tone-Loc
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It was her mother, I didn't know what to say, I was hanging by a string. She said, hey you two, I…
— Tone-Loc
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