Nature Quote by Ivan Urlaub

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices.

— Jared Diamond

No species is more important than others.

— Paul Watson

I saw that animals were important. I saw that plants were even more important. I was also to learn that compared to many of…

— Elizabeth Marshall Thomas

It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all the "other…

— Sharon Gannon

Like other organisms, humans have a certain genetic endowment (apparently varying little in the species, not a surprise considering its recent separation from other…

— Noam Chomsky

To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.

— James Randi

We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'

— Levi Strauss

Nature and other human beings are something you have to respect and you need.

— Jasmila Zbanic

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species.

— Aldous Huxley

Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are 'chosen',…

— Lynn Margulis

By their very nature, human beings are so capricious, so complex, so delightfully contradictory, that they deserve not only our consideration but our reconsideration.

— Amor Towles

Humans have occupied a position in nature that they should not. It is impossible for humans to conquer nature.

— Svetlana Alexievich