Quote by Peter Godfrey-Smith Download Open image ““mammals and birds can live longer, if they don’t get eaten”” — Peter Godfrey-Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.3 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare
“Sometimes a person needs a story more than food to stay alive... from Crow and Weasel” — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
“We're ankle deep in blood, and all because we ate the birds, we ate them a long time ago, when we still had the… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
“You cannot kill and eat animals and expect to help them, much less challenge the food system that profits from our choice to keep… — James McWilliams Copy Share Image
“We differ from other large mammals, but not much from rodents, in the great variety of habitats we now occupy and in the population… — Stephen Oppenheimer Copy Share Image
“One saw a bird dying, shot by a man. It was flying with rhythmic beat and beautifully, with such freedom and lack of fear. And the gun shattered it; it fell to the earth and all the life had gone out of it. A dog fetched it, and the man collected other dead birds. He was chattering with his friend… — Jiddu Krishnamurti Copy Share
“You can’t survive in the long term if you die in the short term. The surest way to ensure extinction is to resist change… — Miles Anthony Smith Copy Share Image
“How easy to be a bird or an animal, living from day to day, unaware you're alive, unaware that one day you will die.” — Rachel Ward Copy Share Image
“PREDATORS RUN FOR THEIR DINNER. PREY RUN FOR THEIR LIVES. —OLD ECOLOGIST’S PROVERB” — Peter Watts Copy Share Image
“Even if we eat the best diet ever (and I highly recommend that we do), we still may not achieve the longevity that is… — David Wolfe Copy Share Image
“But Toulmin and Goodfield's Fabric of the Heavens (1962.), an old book recently reprinted, is my favorite.” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“Crabs and some shrimp, in contrast, will groom injured areas.” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
In a world full of audio visual marvels, may words matter to you and be full of magic. — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“Octopuses in at least two aquariums have learned to turn off the lights” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“All living things affect their environment by making and transforming chemicals, and” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“if you focus on the large fossils, you miss most of the life that is present” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“Inner speech seems to be an important part of System 2 thinking.” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“When you dive into the sea, you are diving into the origin of us all.” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“seems plausible that an animal might feel pain or thirst without having an “inner model” of the world,” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
“They are curious, embracing novelty, protean in behavior as well as in body” — Peter Godfrey-Smith Copy Share Image
