Nature Quote by GBF Summary

“Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or wolf, but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“Humans nowadays completely dominate the planet not because the individual human is far smarter and more nimble-fingered than the individual chimp or wolf, but…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“We can weave common myths such as the biblical creation story, the Dreamtime myths of Aboriginal Australians, and the nationalist myths of modern states.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us the power,…

— David Christian

“Homo Sapiens evolved to think of people as divided into us and them. 'Us' was the group immediately around you, whoever you were, and…

— Yuval Noah Harari

Suddenly, we humans - a recently arrived species, no longer subject to the checks and balances inherent in nature - have grown in population,…

— Paul MacCready

“From Hellstrom’s Hive Manual. The significant evolutionary achievement of the insects, more than a hundred million years ago, was the reproductive neuter. This fixed…

— Frank Herbert

But once the ants and termites jumped the high barrier that prevents the vast variety of evolving animal groups from becoming fully social, they…

— E. O. Wilson

We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and become Earthlings.…

— Paul Watson

That is the onslaught. It has been going on a long time, I argue, but in the 20th century humans have certainly perfected it,…

— Kirkpatrick Sale

I don't know if most people have truly taken on board what this says about our place in the natural world. It doesn't mean…

— Annalee Newitz

As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to…

— Murray Bookchin