Animal Quote by Edward Forbes Download Open image “Zero of Animal Life probably about 300 fathoms.” — Edward Forbes ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.7 out of 5 (3 ratings) Copy quoteShare Animal Animal life Fathom Zero
Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
“Of the many species that have existed on earth--estimates run as high as fifty billion--more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“Animal life has been all but destroyed in sudden, planetwide exterminations five times in Earth's history.” — Peter Brannen Copy Share Image
No other animal on earth has portrayed such a disregard for life than mankind. — Anthony D. Williams Copy Share Image
There are 7 million species of animals on the planet and we’re the only ones of all of them who have walked away from… — Jo Robinson Copy Share Image
Just as the supposed number may differ from the true number by fully 100, 150, or even 200 in a flock of 600 sheep,… — Antonie van Leeuwenhoek Copy Share Image
Surely there will be some nonhuman animals whose lives, by any standards, are more valuable than the lives of some humans. — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
For one who reads, there is no limit to the number of lives that may be lived. — Louis L'Amour Copy Share Image
“Ten thousand years ago, humans plus their pets and livestock accounted for about 0.1% of the terrestrial vertebrate biomass inhabiting the earth; we now… — Daniel J. Levitin Copy Share Image
We are already eating less animal foods since a few years ago, but we are still eating 8-9 billion animals per year. — Mark Bittman Copy Share Image
Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
The corals do not look much worn, but still appear to have been dead. There are some delicate shells of molluscs from depths beyond… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
...It is a very remarkable fact that the species of shell-fish common to Greenland and Finmark are not all inhabitants of deep or moderately… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
As we descend deeper and deeper in this region its inhabitants become more and more modified, and fewer and fewer, indicating our approach towards… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
The naturalists of our own time hold equal faith in the wonders of the sea, but seek therein rather for the links of nature's… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Palaeontological research exhibits, beyond question, the phenomenon of provinces in time, as well as provinces in space. — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
The naturalists of yore esteemed the ocean to be a treasury of wonders, and sought therein for monstrosities and organisms contrary to the law… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
In truth, ideas and principles are independent of men; the application of them and their illustration is man's duty and merit. The time will… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
As to giving credit to whom credit is due, rest assured the best way to do good to one's-self is to do justice to… — Edward Forbes Copy Share Image
Moreover it is becoming the Britons, whether scientific or unscientific, who boast at all fitting occasions of their aptitude to rule the waves, should… — Edward Forbes 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
I'm 38 and I'm single, and I'm having my most intense and gratifying relationship with a dog. But we all learn about love in… — Caroline Knapp Copy Share Image
Practically all animals which move fast in a homogeneous medium have found means of giving their body a streamlined shape, thereby reducing friction to… — Konrad Lorenz Copy Share Image
“it is a federal system of sadistic torture, vivisection, and animal genocide, which has been carried on for decades under the fraudulent guise of… — Michael Tobias 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
“The universe contains any amount of horrible ways to be woken up, such as the noise of the mob breaking down the front door,… — Terry Pratchett 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
![“[Geology] may be looked upon as the history of the earth's changes during preparation for the reception of organized beings, a history, which has all the character of a great epic.” quote by Edward Forbes](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/c7f/edward-forbes-31709_character_geology-may-be-looked-upon-as-the-histor_962358.jpg)
