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There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars. Barbara Ehrenreich
Time Black Cruelty Stars Black Holes About Talking Becoming Lot Up Hitting Going Just Holes Planets Whole Species Extinct
He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness. Benjamin Robbins Curtis
Happiness Obligation Welfare Every Individual Sacrifices Unconscious He Feels Make Him Ties His Which Who Connect Species
It is a pleasant thing to reflect upon, and furnishes a complete answer to those who contend for the gradual degeneration of the human species, that every baby born into the world is a finer one than the last. Charles Dickens
World Reflect Every Baby Pleasant Pleasant Thing Complete Those Degeneration Born Finer Contend Answer Than Gradual Human Who Human Species Species Thing Last
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend. Charles Lamb
Best Men Distinct Composed Borrow According Human Form Lend Races Theory Who Human Species Species Two
The living world has become impoverished. Species are being lost every day. Energy and other resources are nearing exhaustion. The environment is deteriorating. Pollution is everywhere. Climate is changing. Natural balances are threatened. Christian de Duve
Day Natural Every Day World Become Lost Energy Living Every Other Changing Resources Everywhere Threatened Deteriorating Environment Balances Climate Exhaustion Impoverished Being Pollution Species
One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has. Christopher Hitchens
You Plant Will Build Before Expectation Damn Tree Hoping Outlive Fact House Knowing Well Make Sure How Die Done Human Just Children In Fact Want Dying Them Human Species Species
Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species. David Suzuki
Build Others Recognize Share Continue Ultimately Spaces While Urban Landscapes Species Humans Need
Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly, nature needs more room than that. It can maintain itself, however, without human expense, without zookeepers, park rangers, foresters or gene banks. All it needs is to be left alone. Donella Meadows
Alone Needs Nature National Few Preserving Rangers Gene Properly More Park Parks Maintain Maintained Protecting Without However Left Itself Than National Parks Human Expense Banks Room Function Species Biodiversity Zoo
The world has not yet reached the point which, in my view, is an essential condition for the survival of our human species: access by all the peoples to the material resources of this planet. Fidel Castro
Survival People World Our Resources Point Reached Access Material Condition Essential Human Which Planet View Human Species Species
There are eight or nine leading varieties of rice grown in Japan, all of which, except an upland species, require mud, water, and much puddling and nasty work. Rice is the staple food and the wealth of Japan. Its revenues were estimated in rice. Rice is grown almost wherever irrigation is possible. Isabella Bird
Work Food Water Wealth Nine Possible Except Almost Leading Revenues Nasty Were Eight Irrigation Wherever Estimated Which Japan Rice Much Mud Require Staple Grown Species
Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't. James Cameron
Hope Time You Gift Sometimes Ocean Every Every Time See Some Dive Something Something New Gives New Species
Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become. Jean Rostand
Man Become Destined He Equal Origin Species
A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike. Jeffrey Kluger
Likely Because Quicker Deny Than Dislike Less Cockroach Species Butterfly Consciousness
Beetles and butterflies are sometimes restricted to small areas. Each mountain in a range, and even the different zones of a mountain, may have its own peculiar species. But the house-fly seems to be everywhere. I wonder if any island in mid-ocean is flyless. John Muir
Sometimes Own Everywhere Range Restricted Seems Small Area Island Wonder Mountain Any May Different Even Each Species Butterflies Zone Peculiar
The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future. Joseph Needham
Future Will Relations Hierarchy Structure Ecological Idea Leading Perhaps Equilibrium Molecular Whole Species Carbon
Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species. Konrad Lorenz
Natural Will Face Evolution Determined Fact Selection Cultures Historians Did Same Manner Natural Selection Species
We need to recover our true nature by relocating ourselves on this planet, being respectful of our environment, and living in harmony with other species - like a big family. Laurent Baheux
Family Nature Big Living Other Harmony Our Respectful Ourselves Recover Environment True Like True Nature Big Family Being Planet Species Need
That animal part of us, it's the most interesting part. It's everything that has to do with drives, with things we can't stop ourselves from doing, with all the spaces where we're unable to reason with ourselves. It has its dark side, but there's a luminous side, too, which is the fact that we're just another species of animal. Leila Slimani
Animal Dark Dark Side Too Side Everything Unable Ourselves Fact Drives Part Most Another Doing Just Stop Where Spaces Which Interesting Us Reason Species Luminous Things
As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the earth in just a few thousand years, no time at all as evolution clocks time, covering all livable parts of the planet, endangering other forms of life, and now threatening ourselves. Lewis Thomas
Life Time Face Few Young Too Other Earth Evolution Ourselves Thousand Thousand Years Threatening No Time Taking Parts Spread Still Years Covering Clocks Trusted Just Forms Juvenile Planet Across Livable Now Species
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being, the American wants to be considered a good guy. Louis Kronenberger
Good Human Being Gentleman Suitable Other Considered Recognized Some Guy American Human Being Wants Englishman Species Good Guy
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. Marcel Proust
Soul Dark Trees Particular Forest Your Species
We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion. Michael Crichton
Other Our Stubborn Delusion Self-Destructive Any Just View Species
You know what a lima bean does when it's attacked by spider mites? It releases this volatile chemical that goes out into the world and summons another species of mite that comes in and attacks the spider mite, defending the lima bean. So what plants have - while we have consciousness, toolmaking, language, they have biochemistry. Michael Pollan
You World Language Plants Spider Release Out Bean Attacked Attacks Volatile Know Another Chemical Does Goes While Species Biochemistry Consciousness Defending
If current technological processes continue without change, the environment will change, and we, the human species, will either have to mutate or even die, to disappear, as many species have disappeared. Mikhail Gorbachev
Change Will Disappear Disappeared Environment Without Continue Die Current Human Either Processes Many Even Human Species Species Technological
Civilisation is partly about restraining the male of the species from engaging in the violence of the hunter-gatherer period. But it doesn't take an awful lot to unleash it. Niall Ferguson
Unleash About Restraining Civilisation Take Period Partly Male Lot Engaging Species Awful Awful Lot Violence
Must whales and dolphins be subjected to deafening noise that will cause more than 3.5 million instances of temporary and/or permanent hearing loss? For species that depend on hearing for survival - to find food, migrate, and communicate - any hearing loss could be catastrophic. As one scientist noted, a deaf whale is a dead whale. Pierce Brosnan
Food Survival Noise Communicate Cause Will Depend Must Find Temporary More Could Catastrophic Dead Deaf Permanent Scientist Loss Hearing Subjected Dolphins Than Whale Whales Any Noted Migrate Species Million
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