Been Quote by Seth Shostak

“Our earliest ancestors were descended from primates who thrived for millions of years in a treetop environment, and who in the process had evolved…

— Robert Greene

As nature discovered early on, vision is one of the most powerful secret weapons of an intelligent animal to navigate, survive, interact, and change…

— Fei-Fei Li

The evolutionary vision is agnostic in regard to systems in the universe of greater complexity than those of which human beings have clear knowledge.…

— Kenneth E. Boulding

We have had bird's-eye views seen by mind's eye imperfectly. Now we will have nothing less than the tracings of nature itself, reflected on…

— Nadar

“It does appear that some parts of our evolutionary process seem inevitable. It is striking that throughout evolutionary history, the eye evolved independently fifty…

— Marcus du Sautoy

Animals see the unobstructed world with their whole eyes. But our eyes, turned back upon themselves, encircle and seek to snare the world, setting…

— Rainer Maria Rilke

I think our eyes are trained to look for what we want to see.

— Yiyun Li

“n the treetops, this powerful vision was built for speed—seeing and reacting quickly. On the open grassland, it was the opposite. Safety and finding…

— Robert Greene

Is there a more mysterious idea than to imagine how nature is reflected in the eyes of animals?

— Franz Marc

We are a complex species to observe

— Jasmine Guy

We do not see nature with our eyes, but with our understandings and our hearts.

— William Hazlitt

The whole secret of the study of nature lies in learning how to use one's eyes...

— George Sand