Australia Quote by Charles Darwin

“It would seem that marsupials are poor imitations of full-fledged mammals. Their inadequacy gives them a certain appeal; we’re touched by it.”

— Kōbō Abe

Perhaps no order of mammals presents us with so extraordinary a series of gradations as this [step by step, from humans to apes to…

— Thomas Huxley

“scenarios. But there are certainly good reasons to believe that if Homo sapiens had never gone Down Under, it would still be home to…

— Yuval Noah Harari

It might be helpful to realize, that very probably the parents of the first native born Martians are alive today.

— Harrison Schmitt

“We have long laboured under an obtuse presupposition that the senses by which other living creatures perceive their world must to a great extent…

— Gavin Maxwell

I have never yet happened upon a trace of evidence... to show that any one animal was ever made for another as much as…

— John Muir

“When the first humans set foot on Mars, the moment will be more significant in terms of technology, philosophy, history, and exploration than any…

— Stephen L. Petranek

“This world has seen the birth of several strange animals.”

— Jindrich Styrsky

Australians were unique due to our corals, our apples, our gum trees and our kangaroos.

— Harold Edward Holt

“They have not yet evolved into an understanding of their individual selves as merely parts of a whole, first of all humanity, their own…

— Doris Lessing

I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who denounces them…

— Charles Darwin

“Observation of animals revealed the fact that infants were rejected if the mother could not nuzzle them within a certain time.”

— Gabrielle Palmer