“If I learn 1,000 techniques with my luck I'll go out on the street and be attacked by number 1,001.” Quote by Martin J. Whitman
“There are three species of creatures who when they seem coming are going, when they seem going they come: diplomats, women, and crabs.” SeemsThreeCreaturesSpeciesDiplomatsCrabs Author:John Hay
“School is a building that has four walls-with tomorrow inside. Our deeds determine us, as much as we determine our deeds. There are many ways of going forward, but there is only one way of standing still. A lot of us would like to move mountains, but few of us are willing to practice on small hills. Doing your best is more important than being the best. Giant oak trees started out as little nuts. The most powerful weapon on earth is the human soul on fire.” WayHumansLittlesStillsImportantSoulMotivationalSchoolEarthMovingPowerfulPracticeFireFourTreeBuildingWillingWallTomorrowMountainWeaponsStandingDetermineDeedsOne WayHillsMoving OnGiantsBeing The BestMost PowerfulNutsHuman SoulOaksDoing Your BestMove MountainsStanding StillOak TreePowerful WeaponsFour WallsSoul On Fire Author:Ferdinand Foch
“Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing nets, twenty dolphin-lengths in diameter! Yet we take a spider web for granted, as a nuisance in the house rather than as one of the wonders of the world. And think of the furore if Jane Goodall returned from Gombe stream with photographs of wild chimpanzees building their own houses, well roofed and insulated, of painstakingly selected stones neatly bonded and mortared! Yet caddis larvae, who do precisely that, command only passing interest.” IfsThinkingWorldWellsHouseInterestWonderImagineBuildingStonesTwentiesSpeciesPhotographPassingPassingsCommandGrantedStreamsFishingLengthConservationSpidersMarineJaneHeadlinesSelectedBannerDolphinsBiologistNuisanceChimpanzeesWonder Of The WorldSpider WebMarine Biologist Author:Richard Dawkins
“Humans are too stupid to prevent climate change from radically impacting on our lives over the coming decades.” HumansOur LivesStupidClimateClimate ChangeDecadesConservation Author:James Lovelock
“Throughout history, men have tried to play God by moving rabbits, goats, sparrows, mongooses, and a hundred other species to oceanic islands and island continents, and later have wished to God they hadn't.” MenPlayMovingHundredSpeciesIslandsContinentsConservationRabbitsGoatsSparrowsMongoose Author:Victor Blanchard Scheffer
“We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.” PlanetsCleanSpeciesConservation Author:Dennis Weaver
“Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.” HumansSpecialEvolveConservationThreatenedExtinctionLineage Author:George C. Williams
“I remember really bonding with the first generation kids, the Chinese Canadian kids, and in high school bonding with the Latin kids and the East Indian kids. It was very interesting because it made me open to lots of musical sounds.” FirstsMadeKidsSchoolRememberSoundInterestingGenerationsHigh SchoolMusicalEastChineseIndianLatinVery InterestingBonding Author:Nelly
“Girls like to see girls dressed up like princesses occasionally.” GirlPrincessDressed Up Author:Nelly