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“For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature, air, water, seasons, and weather were precisely calibrated to allow us - the big us, including forests and oceans, species large and small - to flourish.”

World Years Has Beens Bigs Water Millions Air This World Planets Ocean Seasons Species Including Forests Weather Atmosphere Temperature Living On Great Gifts Woods And Forests

Author:Rebecca Solnit

“At issue is not only knowledge of the world but our survival as individuals and as a species. All the basic technologies ever invented by humans to feed and protect themselves depend on a relentless commitment to hard-nosed empiricism: you cannot assume that your arrowheads will pierce the hide of a bison or that your raft will float just because the omens are propitious and you have been given supernatural reassurance that they will. You have to be sure.”

Source: Bright-sided: How the Relentless Promotion of Positive Thinking Has Undermined America

“To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree”

Source: On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection; Or, The Preservation of Favoured Races in the Struggle for Life

“The environmental assessment should give us the answers to all the issues that have been raised: potential lead migration, endangered species, noise abatement and proper disposal of shot, shells and things.”

Giving Should Has Beens Answers Issues Shots Raised Species Environmental Noise Shells Assessment Migration Endangered Species

Author:Steven Hall

“The last sort I shall mention are verbal critics - mere word-catchers, fellows that pick out a word in a sentence and a sentence in a volume, and tell you it is wrong. The title of Ultra-Crepidarian critics has been given to a variety of this species.”

Has Beens Lasts Given Picks Fellows Mere Species Critics Sentences Variety Titles Volume Catchers Ultras

Book:Table-talk: Or, Original Essays

Source: Table-talk: Or, Original Essays

“In a world where so much that is wild and free has been lost to us, we must leave these beautiful animals free to swim as they will and must. They do us no harm and wish us none and we should let them alone.”

World Should Has Beens Beautiful Lost Wish Nature Freedom Animal Beauty Species Harm Swim Swimming Dolphins Animal Liberation Wild And Free Animal Kingdom

Author:Ric O'Barry