“Most people know that forests are the lungs of our planet, literally playing a critical role in every breath we take. And that they're also home to incredible animals like the orangutan and elephant, which will go extinct if we keep cutting down their forests.” PeopleIfsKnowsHomeAnimalRolesCuttingPlanetsBreathsIncrediblesCriticalForestsElephantsLungsOur PlanetCutting DownWoods And ForestsOrangutans Author:Chris Noth
“And somehow mother nature manages to create this incredible biosphere, to create this incredibly rich environment of animals and plants with this amazingly small amount of data.” MotherAnimalRichEnvironmentAmountPlantIncrediblesManageDataMother NatureBiodiversitySmall AmountsBiosphere Author:Freeman Dyson
“Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination of man's total environment with such substances of incredible potential for harm-substances that accumulate in the tissues of plants and animals and even penetrate the germ cells to shatter or alter the very material of heredity upon which the shape of the future depends.” MenWarProblemAgeAnimalEnvironmentMankindPossibilityMaterialsDependsShapesPlantEnvironmentalIncrediblesHarmNuclearCellsSubstancePollutionExtinctionPenetrateGermsTissuesNuclear WarHeredityPlants And AnimalsContamination Book:Silent Spring Source: Silent Spring
“You see this incredible capacity for replication in nature, survival, development, all of these things that are around us all the time in nature that just happen. By comparison, human life is really, really complicated. We're gifted animals, but we are so complicated. Nothing is easy for us, except maybe eating too much.” HumansHappensLife IsEasyAnimalToo MuchDevelopmentEatingSurvivalCapacityIncrediblesComplicatedHuman LifeComparisonGiftedReplicationNothing Is Easy Author:Alison Hawthorne Deming
“An Animated Cartoon Theology: 1. People are animals. 2. The body is mortal and subject to incredible pain. 3. Life is antagonistic to the living. 4. The flesh can be sawed, crushed, frozen, stretched, burned, bombed, and plucked for music. 5. The dumb are abused by the smart and the smart destroyed by their own cunning. 6. The small are tortured by the large and the large destroyed by their own momentum. 7. We are able to walk on air, but only as long as our illusion supports us.” PeopleLongBodyAblePainLife IsWalksAnimalSupportAirSubjectsSmartIllusionIncrediblesFleshTheologyDestroyedMortalsDumbBurnedCartoonFrozenCunningMomentumCrushedAnimated Author:E. L. Doctorow