Best earth & species Quotes | Short & Famous Sayings

“As a species, we are most animated when our days and nights on Earth are touched by the natural world. We can find immeasurable joy in the birth of a child, a great work of art, or falling in love.”

World Children Art Earth Joy Night Fall Natural Birth Species Falling In Love Touched Works Of Art Great Work Natural World Animated Day And Night Birth Of A Child

Book:The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age

Source: The Nature Principle: Reconnecting with Life in a Virtual Age

“Whether many people realize it yet or not, man, the Inferior Animal, has by now proved himself incapable of keeping his own species - and others - alive for very much longer. So the earth has begun its own plan to set things right.”

People Men Earth Realizing Animal Alive Plans Species Inferiors Incapable

Author:Benjamin Hoff

“Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.”

Earth Found Groups Species Fossils Fractions Sample Never Expect Paleontology

Author:George Gaylord Simpson

“Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.”

Years Believe Earth Animal Percent Species Secretary Drs Institute Earth Day Smithsonian

Author:Gaylord Nelson

“Spiritually, trees play a unique role in the Jewish and Christian scriptures, from the Garden of Eden to the Cross of Christ. Biologically, in great forest communities, they help sustain life on our planet, giving off oxygen, anchoring soil, keeping stream and rivers clear, and providing habitation for thousands of species. How can religious persons not care about the widespread destruction of these creatures of God? We need to love them as our very selves, as neighbors in earth's community of life.”

“Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intelligence usually extinguishes itself.”

Humans Earth Law Evolution Species Environmental Abnormal Dice Human Species Abnormality

Author:E. O. Wilson

“This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day.”

Stills Earth Species Killing Violent Places To Live Cain Abel

Author:Anne Lamott

“Unfortunately, all life on earth - the only life we know - represents, for all its current variety, the results of a single experiment , for every earthly species evolved from the common ancestry of a single origin. We desperately need a repetition of the experiment (several would be better, but let's not be greedy!) in order to make a judgement. Mars represents our first real hope for a second experiment - the sine qua non - for any proper answer for the question of questions.”

Knows Needs Firsts Real Would Be Earth Order Answers Results Common Species Currents Experiments Variety Judgement Mars Repetition Greedy Ancestry

Book:Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

Source: Leonardo's Mountain of Clams and the Diet of Worms

“It's the one species I wouldn't mind seeing vanish from the face of the earth. I wish they were like the White Rhinosix of them left in the Serengeti National Park, and all males.”

Mind Earth Faces Left Wish White Seeing Species Males Parks National Parks

Author:Alan Bennett

“Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming, attack and destroy it, as if killing a mammoth.”

Ifs Firsts Earth Together Rocks Cry Battle Species Killing Traps Insolent Battle Cry

Author:Naz?m Hikmet

“When women think of power, we shouldn’t think of it only for ourselves. We should be thinking about what we’re going to do with power, once we have it. Women should be standing up powerfully and passionately for the care and protection of children, as well as the care and protection of the Earth itself. Women’s voices should be front and center in protecting both our young and our habitat. That’s the way it is in any species that survives.”

Thinking Way Should Wells Children Care Earth Young Voice Fronts Standing Species Protection Habitat

Author:Marianne Williamson

“A wedding is earth and water and a species of irreducible light and the flat belly of a harbor and a mango about to ripen and fall into gravity's caress and the waves subsiding and resuming their concerto in a minor key and the rush hour canceled by the stun of auspicious beginnings.”

Light Earth Fall Water Hours Keys Species Wave Flats Gravity Minors Belly Harbors Caress Rush Hour

Book:The Blaze of the Poui: Poems

Source: The Blaze of the Poui: Poems

“There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive--a truly lousy survival record: 99.9 percent failure!”

Stills Different Earth Animal Millions Records Five Alive Thousand Survival Percent Plant Species Billions Fifty Forty One Time

Author:David M. Raup

“In the beginning, there were bacteria.... [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through a continuous chain of ancestor-descendant pairs. This assumption looks good because all living organisms share biochemical traits. It is conceivable, of course, that life originated more than once on the early earth but that all except one life form died out early, leaving a single lineage as the ancestor of life as we know it. If this did happen, it was the first important species extinction.”

“Ecology also teaches that all life on earth can be viewed as a competition among species for the solar energy captured by green plants and stored in the form of complex carbon molecules. A food chain is a system for passing those calories on to species that lack the pant's unique ability to synthesize them from sunlight.”

“Why does evolution matter? There is so much about the evolution of life, the development of life on Earth that should rivet the attention of everyone to understand where we've come from and where we might be going. We need to understand the world around us if we are to succeed as a species on the planet.”

Ifs World Needs Should Doe Matter Might Earth Attention Planets Development Evolution Succeed Species Evolution Of Life

Author:Sylvia Earle

“The diversity of life on Earth, generally, is astonishing. But despite those large numbers, it's also important to recognize that every species, one way or another, is vulnerable to extinction. And in our time on Earth... our impact on the diversity of life has been profound.”

“Clean air and water, a diversity of animal and plant species, soil and mineral resources, and predictable weather are annuities that will pay dividends for as long as the human race survives – and may even extend our stay on Earth.”

Humans May Long Earth Water Animal Pay Race Air Diversity Resources Clean Plant Species Weather Human Race Soil Predictable Minerals Dividends Clean Air Air And Water Mineral Resources

Author:Alex Steffen

“As the dolphin becomes just another victim of humanity's utilitarian attitudes towards the earth, it seems as though the ancient friendship between our respective species is no longer entirely reciprocal. Such exploitation is nowhere more evident than in the capture and display of cetaceans for profit. Stripped of their natural identity, deprived of their own culture and environment, the dolphin and whale incarcerated within the oceanarium not only symbolizes an abuse of that ancient relationship, but above all our estrangement from nature as a whole.”

“I'm beginning to feel that the real endangered species on planet earth are not the whales and the elephants but those of us who can laugh at the world and ourselves. ... I fear the dry turn of the American mind, this focus on the literal, as much as I fear our capacity for self-destruction. We've become hagridden by facts, obsessed with product instead of process. Where's the energetic wit, the looney outlook, the frivolity, the lightness of comforting laughter? It has become fashionable to know and unfashionable to feel, and you can't really laugh if you can't feel.”

“It's just as hard for man to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the species as it was to break the habit of thinking of himself as central to the universe. He sees himself quite unconsciously as the main line of evolution, with a female satellite revolving around him as the moon revolves around the earth. This not only causes him to overlook valuable clues to our ancestry, but sometimes leads him into making statements that are arrant and demonstrable nonsense.”

Thinking Men Sometimes Hard Earth Universe Causes Lines Break Evolution Habit Moon Female Species Valuable Statements Nonsense Clue Ancestry Satellites Revolving

Author:Elaine Morgan

“Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.”

Littles Sometimes Light Running Today Earth Environment Amount Survival Errors Species Billions Nine Fifty Cents Ninety Ninety Nine

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“Zoologists have reckoned there are up to at least 750 species of animal that have been observed exhibiting same-sex behaviour, or gender role transformation (which is very common in a wide range of fauna). There is only one species on earth, however, which has exhibited homophobia or transphobia. And that is the species homo sapiens sapiens. Us. So let's not allow the foolish, ignorant or bigoted ever to use words like "natural."”

Has Beens Use Earth Sex Natural Animal Common Roles Transformation Species Gender Wide Foolish Ignorant Range Behaviour Homo Sapiens Homophobia Gender Roles Zoologist

Author:Stephen Fry

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