Animals Quote by Jane Goodall

We are breeding creatures incapable of surviving in any place other than the most artificial settings. We have focused the awesome power of modern…

— Jonathan Safran Foer

Humans - whatever billions we are - we don't have the control. We are considered expendable, basically.

— Alice Walker

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

— Jared Diamond

To be sure, we have inherited abilities, but our development we owe to thousands of influences coming from the world around us from which…

— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe

We are the one creature to whom natural selection has bequeathed a brain complex enough to comprehend the laws that govern the universe. And…

— Jerry A. Coyne

“Control creates domesticated animals. The purpose of society is to inspire humanity, not tame them,’ said Ram.”

— Devdutt Pattanaik

Human beings are what I think of as "biomythic" animals: we're controlled largely by the stories we tell. When we get the story wrong,…

— Sam Keen

Ultimately, human intentionality is the most powerful evolutionary force on this planet.

— George Leonard

Nature is always trying to tell us that we are not so superior or independent or alone or autonomous as we may think.

— Wendell Berry

Mankind's ability to understand and control the forces of nature greatly exceeds our ability to govern ourselves

— George Soros

You can now modify the genes of large animals, and the largest animal we are concerned with is the human.

— Robert Winston

What human beings seek to learn from nature is how to use it to dominate wholly both it and human beings. Nothing else counts.

— Theodor Adorno