Branches Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

The origin of Homo sapiens, as a tiny twig on an improbable branch of a contingent limb on a fortunate tree, lies well below…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Don’t believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the record among…

— Yuval Noah Harari

In talking of evolution, it is common to have in mind a tree.

— Russell Stannard

Like people, trees are all individuals.

— David Hockney

“The affinities of all the beings of the same class have sometimes been represented by a great tree.I believe this simile largely speaks the…

— Charles Darwin

“What an irony it is that these living beings whose shade we sit in, whose fruit we eat, whose limbs we climb, whose roots…

— Jim Robbins

Human beings grew up in forests; we have a natural affinity for them. How lovely a tree is, straining toward the sky.

— Carl Sagan

We ought to think that we are one of the leaves of a tree, and the tree is all humanity. We cannot live without…

— Pablo Casals

To me, trees are living beings and they have their own sort of personalities.

— Jane Goodall

Homo Sapiens is a frontier creature. It is what we do; it defines what we are. This has been true from our very beginnings.…

— Rick Tumlinson

“Trees hang their branches”

— Allen Ginsberg

“Don’t believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature”

— Yuval Noah Harari