Identity Quote by Rudolf Steiner

Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an…

— Charles Darwin

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single…

— Henry Fuseli

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

— Henry Fielding

All forests have their own personality. I don't just mean the obvious differences, like how an English woodland is different from a Central American…

— Charles de Lint

An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species are the…

— Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon

“It seems as if, in making a marriage, either the individual or the interest of the species must come off badly.”

— Alain de Botton

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after…

— Richard Owen

No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals…

— Theodosius Dobzhansky

The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a…

— Nicholas A. Christakis

Savages have often been likened to children, and the comparison is not only correct but also highly instructive. Many naturalists consider that the early…

— John Lubbock

A human life is defined by its relationship with others: by its duty to its species. In the face of this duty, life, liberty,…

— Matthew Woodring Stover

Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks…

— Tom Robbins