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“I can no more explain why I like "natural history" than why I like California canned peaches; nor why I do not care for that enormous brand of natural history which deals with invertebrates any more than why I do not care for brandied peaches. All I can say is that almost as soon as I began to read at all I began to like to read about the natural history of beasts and birds and the more formidable or interesting reptiles and fishes.”

I Can Care Natural Animal Interesting Deals Bird Fishes Enormous Brands California Beast Formidable Peaches Natural History Reptiles Invertebrates

Book:Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

Source: Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia

“Advocates for a single line of progress encounter their greatest stumbling block when they try to find a smooth link between the apparently disparate designs of the invertebrates and vertebrates.”

Trying Lines Progress Design Block Encounters Links Smooth Stumbling Stumbling Blocks Single Line Vertebrates Invertebrates

Author:Stephen Jay Gould

“When provoked, the itsy-bitsy invertebrates known as tardigrades can suspend their metabolism. In that state, they can survive temperatures of... 73 K for days on end, making them hardy enough to endure being stranded on Neptune. So the next time you need space travelers with the right stuff, you might want to choose yeast and tardigrades, and leave your astronauts, cosmonauts, and taikonauts at home.”

Source: Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries

“Art without technique is invertebrate, shapeless, characterless.”

Art Technique Invertebrates Characterless

Author:Ignacy Jan Paderewski

“We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and very small invertebrates. They make up the mass of the organisms around us, including the soil we depend on, the soil of cornfields as well as hardwood forests. We haven't taken ecology to the point where we can even make a crude prediction of what's going to happen when we've reduced the living world down to a certain level.”

Knows World Wells Happens Certain Levels Taken Havens Depends Mass Species Including Forests Soil Organisms Ecology Predictions Crude Microbes Hardwood Invertebrates

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Is boneless chicken considered to be an invertebrate?”

Humor Funny Chickens Invertebrates

Author:Steven Wright

“When you get into the whole field of exploring, probably 90 percent of the kinds of organisms, plants, animals and especially microorganisms and tiny invertebrate animals are unknown. Then you realize that we live on a relatively unexplored plan.”

Kind Whole Realizing Animal Plans Fields Percent Plant Tiny Organisms Exploring Unexplored Microorganisms Invertebrates

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Curse the blasted, jelly-boned swines, the slimy, the belly-wriggling invertebrates, the miserable soddingrotters, the flaming sods, the sniveling, dribbling, dithering, palsied, pulse-less lot that make up England today. They've got white of egg in their veins, and their spunk is that watery it's a marvel they can breed.”

Today White England Miserable Curse Eggs Sarcastic Veins Belly Pulse Jelly Sod Spunk Invertebrates

Author:D. H. Lawrence

“There is the life of the plankton in almost endless variety; there are the many kinds of fish, both surface and bottom living; there are the hosts of different invertebrate creatures on the sea-floor; and there are those almost grotesque forms of pelagic life in the oceans depths. Then there are the squids and cuttlefish, and the porpoises, dolphins and great whales.”

Kind Different Form Sea Creatures Ocean Depth Bottom Fishes Surface Endless Variety Host Whales Grotesque Dolphins Squids Porpoises Plankton Endless Sea Invertebrates Cuttlefish

Author:Alister Hardy

“If we and the rest of the back-boned animals were to disappear overnight, the rest of the world would get on pretty well. But if the invertebrates were to disappear, the world's ecosystems would collapse”

Ifs World Wells Nature Animal Environment Disappear Collapse Ecosystems Natural Environment Invertebrates

Author:David Attenborough

“The facts of paleontology seem to support creation and the flood rather than evolution. For instance, all the major groups of invertebrates appear "suddenly" in the first fossil ferrous strata (Cambrian) of the earth with their distinct specializations indicating that they were all created almost at the same time.”

Firsts Facts Seems Earth Support Groups Creation Evolution Majors Instance Flood Fossils Specialization Paleontology Invertebrates

Author:Enoch

“We are part of nature, a product of a long evolutionary journey. To some degree, we carry the ancient oceans in our blood. … Our brains and nervous systems did not suddenly spring into existence without long antecedents in natural history. That which we most prize as integral to our humanity - our extraordinary capacity to think on complex conceptual levels - can be traced back to the nerve network of primitive invertebrates, the ganglia of a mollusk, the spinal cord of a fish, the brain of an amphibian, and the cerebral cortex of a primate.”