Animal Quote by Diane Ackerman Download Open image “We have vexed and bothered every plant and every animal on every continent.” — Diane Ackerman ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.3 out of 5 (6 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animal Animals Bothered Continents Evolution Gardening Plant
It is a truly wonderful fact - the wonder of which we are apt to overlook from familiarity - that all animals and all… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Part of my plan was not only to introduce all useful animals that I possibly could into this part of Australia, but also the… — George Grey Copy Share Image
All over the world the wildlife that I write about is in grave danger. It is being exterminated by what we call the progress… — Gerald Durrell Copy Share Image
For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
What we do to animals directly impacts everything, because we are all connected. It disrupts the food chain, it funds terrorism (ivory), it changes… — Nikki Reed Copy Share Image
In most of the world, we have only small remnants of the wildlife that once existed. Africa has the most astonishing wildlife still. — Patrick Bergin Copy Share Image
We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy. — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
This is a green world, with animals comparatively few and small, and all dependent upon the leaves. By leaves we live. — Patrick Geddes Copy Share Image
You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like… — Jon Fishman Copy Share Image
We are all vegetarians here, and except for a mountain lion that's been hanging around and killed our dog, we don't have a care… — Dirk Benedict Copy Share Image
And I believe that it becomes a troubled continent because there are those who must always cause confusion so that we do not keep… — Miriam Makeba Copy Share Image
A self is a frightening thing to waste, it's the lens through which one's whole life is viewed, and few people are willing to… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Our lives together, our duet, also continues to evolve, and even if we can’t go back to how it was, we’re designing a good… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Hit a tripwire of smell and memories explode all at once. A complex vision leaps out of the undergrowth. — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Look at your feet. You are standing in the sky. When we think of the sky, we tend to look up, but the sky… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Who would deduce the dragonfly from the larva, the iris from the bud, the lawyer from the infant? ...We are all shape-shifters and magical… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Though we marry as adults, we don't marry adults. We marry children who have grown up and still rejoice in being children, especially if… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“The etymology of the Hebrew word for prophet, navi, combines three processes: navach (to cry out), nava (to gush or flow), and navuv (to… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Knee-deep in the cosmic overwhelm, I’m stricken by the ricochet wonder of it all: the plain everythingness of everything, in cahoots with the everythingness… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
Symbolic of life, hair bolts from our head[s]. Like the earth, it can be harvested, but it will rise again. We can change its… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
“Most people know that 30 to 40 percent of the world's Jews were killed during World War II, but not that 80 to 90… — Diane Ackerman Copy Share Image
I was 3-years-old - to this day it is a vivid memory. My family and I were on a boat, catching fish. As one… — Joaquin Phoenix Copy Share Image
Animals know nothing of themselves, and they also know nothing of the world. — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
When grubbing for necessities man is still an animal. He becomes uniquely human when he reaches out for the superfluous and extravagant. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“What does it mean to be a self-conscious animal? The idea is ludicrous, if it is not monstrous. It means to know that one… — Ernest Becker Copy Share Image
We must love animals in such a powerful way that we should reject to eat them! — Mehmet Murat Ildan Copy Share Image
This brings me back to the image of Kafka standing before a fish in the Berlin aquarium, a fish on which his gaze fell… — Jonathan Safran Foer Copy Share Image
Animal rights without veganism is like human rights with slavery. It makes no sense. None whatsoever. — Gary L. Francione Copy Share Image
It’s a small thing to help one animal, but to that one animal it’s a big thing — Gene Baur Copy Share Image
Even with clothing naked animals, there were people who wanted to send in money. A woman in Santa Barbara, California, sent a $40,000 check.… — Alan Abel Copy Share Image
We're not very dangerous animals; we don't have a horn like a rhino or quills like a porcupine. — Helen Fisher Copy Share Image