"To be anthropocentric is to remain unaware of……" — E. O. Wilson

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• ...the program of scientific experimentation that leads you to conclude that animals are imbeciles is profoundly anthropocentric. It values being… — J M Coetzee
• Above all, we must awaken to and overcome the great hidden anthropocentric projection that has virtually defined the modern mind:… — Richard Tarnas
• Man is a blind, witless, low brow, anthropocentric clod who inflicts lesions upon the earth. — Ian McHarg
• Shallow ecology is anthropocentric, or human-centred. It views humans as above or outside nature, as the source of all value,… — Fritjof Capra
• The statistics of life out there and the statistics of intelligent beings and advanced civilization is a certainty, the way… — Story Musgrave
• Since the so-called Age of Enlightenment, our shaky anthropocentric, rationalist egos have been brainwashed to forget what 'primitive' cultures once… — Zeena Schreck
• Once we overcome our fear of being tiny, we find ourselves on the threshold of a vast and awesome Universe… — Carl Sagan
• Almost all theological thought is anthropocentric and I just cannot buy into the anthropocentric ideology. Basically we're a bunch of… — Paul Watson
• Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine… — Frans de Waal
• I take a biocentric point of view. I look at things from the point of view of the Earth and… — Paul Watson
• In the biblical worldview, the purpose of all creation is to benefit man. This anthropocentric view of nature, and indeed… — Dennis Prager

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