Ancestor Quote by Olaf Stapledon

“Become desert, the great silty gobs Rise up in whirlwinds and subsist under miasma Of sediments aloft: dust-storms inherit The powerful cells of the…

— William Scott Home

“Darwin's Ark The fact is, I know those ancestors floating through my sleep: an animal that breathed water, had a great swimming tail, an…

— Philip Appleman

Probably we never fully credit the interdependence of wild creatures, and their cognizance of the affairs of their own kind.

— Mary Hunter Austin

So this piece of dirt waits four and a half billion years and evolves and changes, and now a strange creature stands here with…

— Richard P. Feynman

Perhaps generations of students of human evolution, including myself, have been flailing about in the dark; that our data base is too sparse, too…

— David Pilbeam

Rapidly becoming extinct in thename of human sensitivity and modernity are constantly fallingis necessary to save the character that we headed back to ancient…

— Mak_786

We need another and a wiser and perhaps a more mystical concept of animals. Remote from universal nature, and living by complicated artifice, man…

— Henry Beston

“Such is the strange situation in which modern philosophy finds itself. No former age was ever in such a favourable position with regard to…

— Ernst Cassirer

“But we live on the cusp of a Renaissance in consciousness of who we truly are and, thus, we can now begin to thrive…

— Martha Char Love

Sad but true: individual intelligence probably peaked in the Upper Paleolithic, and we have been self-domesticated creatures ever since

— Anonymous

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

— E. O. Wilson

“A wiser intelligence might now truthfully say of us at this point: here is a chimera, a new and very odd species come shambling…

— E.O. Wilson