Nature of man Quote by Mike Duran

“Bacteria is the only culture some people have.”

— Karin Gillespie

“You realize how small you are in the grand scheme of things. We’re not really the rulers of this planet, we’re just tenants, and…

— wildbow

“You try to understand human behavior. You try to explain it. Not me. I know we're smaller than gorillas, bigger than chimps, worse than…

— Michael Robotham

“You know that I've always been proud of the way nature singled me out. It's the people who have been deformed by society that…

— Tom Robbins

“This world ain't about how how big you are, or how little. It's about how every little thing touches every other thing in creation.”

— Laura Lee Gulledge

“To be such a complicated, myterious piece of biological machinery! That is a special thing, unprecedented in all of evolutionary history. Our ability to…

— Veronica Roth

“Sometimes people don't get sick from bacteria or a virus- -living organisms alien to the human body- -but from the human brain itself. Our…

— Buket Uzuner

“Human beings are basically huge monkeys that walked upright, but they can be pretty full of themselves.”

— Hiro Arikawa

“We have to be bigger than the things we suffer.”

— Shelly Crane

“The old myth of unlimited growth alienates human beings from nature. To live sustainably we must respect nature and live by its rules. We…

— Linda Mason Hunter

“Nuclear, ecological, chemical, economic — our arsenal of Death by Stupidity is impressive for a species as smart as Homo sapiens ["Strange New World,"…

— Jeanette Winterson

“For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.”

— John Fowles