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“Ants are more like the parts of an animal than entities on their own. They are mobile cells, circulating through a dense connective tissue of other ants in a matrix of twigs. The circuits are so intimately interwoven that the anthill meets all the essential criteria of an organism.”

Animal Essentials Cells Entity Organisms Mobile Criteria Ants Tissues Circuits Dense Twigs

Author:Lewis Thomas

“We must recognise the essential underlaying savagery in the animal called man, and return to older and sounder principles of national life and defense. We must realise that man's nature will remain the same so long as he remains man; that civilisation is but a slight coverlet beneath which the dominant beast sleeps lightly and ever ready to awake.”

Men Long Sleep Animal Principles Ready Return Essentials Remains Defense Awake Beast Realising Dominant Recognise Civilisation Savagery Sounder

Book:Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)

Source: Delphi Complete Works of H. P. Lovecraft (Illustrated)

“Anybody who has ever owned a dog who barked when strangers came near its owner's property has experienced the essential continuity between animal territoriality and human property. Our domesticated cousins of the wolf know, instinctively, that property is no mere social convention or game, but a critically important evolved mechanism for the avoidance of violence. (This makes them smarter than a good many human political theorists.)”

Humans Political Animal Dog Essentials Property Stranger Owners Good Man Smarter Cousin Continuity Theorists

Author:Eric S. Raymond

“We humans should never forget our capacity to connect with the collective spirit of animals. Their energy is essential to our future growth.”

Should Humans Spirit Energy Growth Forget Animal Essentials Capacity Collectives Never Forget Our Future Future Growth

Author:Shirley MacLaine

“Since zombies are not fully dead, they upset the essential balance of nature: no animals eat zombies, apparently, and zombies do not seem to decay, at least, not to the point of disintegration and reintegration back into the soil, so the food chain, or the circle of life, seems to end or be short-circuited by their existence. Zombies fulfill the worst potentialities of humans to create a hellish kingdom on earth of endless, sterile repetition and boredom.”

Source: Gospel of the Living Dead: George Romero's Visions of Hell on Earth

“The human animal, like others, is adapted to a certain amount of struggle for life [and] the mere absence of effort from his life removes an essential ingredient of happiness. [. . .] He forgets that to be without some of the things you want is an indispensable part of happiness.”

Want Humans Certain Forget Animal Effort Struggle Amount Essentials Mere Absence Remove Ingredients Indispensable Adapted Human Animal

Book:The Conquest of Happiness

Source: The Conquest of Happiness

“Without animals, something essential is removed from the minds of the farmers.”

Mind Animal Essentials Farmers

Author:Wendell Berry

“All the different classes of beings which taken together make up the universe are, in the ideas of God who knows distinctly their essential gradations, only so many ordinates of a single curve so closely united that it would be impossible to place others between any two of them, since that would imply disorder and imperfection. Thus men are linked with the animals, these with the plants and these with the fossils which in turn merge with those bodies which our senses and our imagination represent to us as absolutely inanimate.”

Knows Men Two Ideas Different Body Would Be Together Turns Universe Imagination Animal United Class Taken Impossible Essentials Plant Senses Disorder Imperfection Linked Curves Fossils

Author:Gottfried Leibniz

“We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the balance of life in a particular context. Or we discover too late that the importation of a foreign life-form, animal or vegetable, has upset local ecosystems, damaging soil or neighbouring life-forms. We discover that we have come near the end of supplies-of fossil-fuels for example -on which we have built immense structures of routine expectation.”

Source: Faith in the Public Square

“Stupefaction overrode all other emotion when I saw this creature on the lookout, lying in wait for the game. For it was an ape, a large-sized gorilla. It was in vain that I told myself I was losing my reason: I could entertain not the slightest doubt as to his species. But an encounter with a gorilla on the planet Soror was not the essential outlandishness of the situation. This for me lay in the fact that the ape was correctly dressed, like a man of our world, and above all that he wore his clothes in such an easy manner.”

Men World Reason Facts Lying Games Easy Waiting Animal Emotion Situation Doubt Saws Planets Creatures Essentials Clothes Losing Lays Species Vain Encounters Our World Apes Gorillas

Author:Pierre Boulle

“It is essential for evolution to become the central core of any educational system, because it is evolution, in the broad sense, that links inorganic nature with life, and the stars with the earth, and matter with mind, and animals with man. Human history is a continuation of biological evolution in a different form.”

Men Mind Humans Different Matter Earth Form Stars Animal Evolution Essentials Educational Core Broads Links Human History Educational System Continuation Biological Evolution

Author:Julian Huxley