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Insight into universal nature provides an intellectual delight and sense of freedom that no blows of fate and no evil can destroy.
Great is the power of steady misrepresentation; but the history of science shows that fortunately this power does not long endure.
Change is a measure of time and, in the autumn, time seems speeded up. What was is not and never again will be; what is is change.
Parenthood is a great equalizer. It doesn't matter how famous you are - once you become a parent, you are just like everyone else.
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree
The instruction at Edinburgh was altogether by lectures, and these were intolerably dull, with the exception of those on chemistry.
[T]he young and the old of widely different races, both with man and animals, express the same state of mind by the same movements.
To those whom the tree, the birds, the wildflowers represent only "locked-up dollars" have never known or really seen these things.
I couldn't hold a candle to how adventurous Steve was. He found life intoxicating, and he was just in awe of every living creature.
If I had my life to live over again, I would have made a rule to read some poetry and listen to some music at least once every week.
At no time am I a quick thinker or writer: whatever I have done in science has solely been by long pondering, patience and industry.
Steve was so wonderful to bring wildlife into our living rooms and let us see that animals we used to be afraid of are so important.
When I first met Steve, as an American tourist coming into the zoo, I fell desperately in love with him and married him immediately.
I would give absolutely nothing for the theory of Natural Selection, if it requires miraculous additions at any one stage of descent.
Until the day comes when the senseless killing ends, we will all have to fight like wildlife warriors to protect our precious planet.
I think, for other people who have lost someone and have loved again, it's a beautiful thing. But it's just not really on my horizon.
There is a tendency in nature to the continued progression of certain classes of varieties further and further from the original type.
One general law, leading to the advancement of all organic beings, namely, multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.
The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.
You might not think of 'conservation' immediately when you think of Russell Crowe, but he is a great conservationist in his own right.
In the long history of humankind (and animal kind, too) those who learned to collaborate and improvise most effectively have prevailed.
Essentially, all life depends upon the soil ... There can be no life without soil and no soil without life; they have evolved together.
For us, conservation work isn't just what we do. It's who we are. It's really defined us that this is what we've dedicated our lives to.
Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms.
A fair result can be obtained only by fully stating and balancing the facts and arguments on both sides of each question." Charles Darwin
No matter how many shows or how much work we do, we are not going to make a difference. It's only the masses that will make a difference.
Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.
A moral being is one who is capable of reflecting on his past actions and their motives - of approving of some and disapproving of others.
I have long discovered that geologists never read each other's works, and that the only object in writing a book is a proof of earnestness.
Writing well is at one and the same time good thinking, good feeling, and good expression; it is having wit, soul, and taste, all together.
It at once struck me that under these circumstances favourable variations would tend to be preserved, and unfavourable ones to be destroyed.
I was obliged, at last, to come to the conclusion that the contemplation of nature alone is not sufficient to fill the human heart and mind.
I discovered on my own that I could cope better with the crippling effects of grief by taking care of myself, eating right, and working out.
I am sorry to have to inform you that I do not believe in the Bible as a divine revelation, & therefore not in Jesus Christ as the Son of God.
The long fight to save wild beauty represents democracy at its best. It requires citizens to practice the hardest of virtues - self-restraint.
If you can reach out and touch and love and be with wildlife, you will forever be changed, and you will want to make the world a better place.
It's an awful stretcher to believe that a peacock's tail was thus formed but ... most people just don't get it - I must be a very bad explainer
To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception
During its development the animal passes through all stages of the animal kingdom. The foetus is a representation of all animal classes in time.
Steve had a broad, easy smile and the biggest hands I had ever seen. I could tell by his stature and stride that he was accustomed to hard work.
To say that mind is a product or function of protoplasm, or of its molecular changes, is to use words to which we can attach no clear conception.
From my early youth I have had the strongest desire to understand or explain whatever I observed. ... To group all facts under some general laws.
As natural selection works solely by and for the good of each being, all corporeal and mental endowments will tend to progress toward perfection.
To expect the world to receive a new truth, or even an old truth, without challenging it, is to look for one of those miracles which do not occur.
I must begin with a good body of facts and not from a principle (in which I always suspect some fallacy) and then as much deduction as you please.
...conscience looks backwards and judges past actions, inducing that kind of dissatisfaction, which if weak we call regret, and if severe remorse.
No matter the circumstances are that you lose someone, nobody's truly prepared. Steve's accident was so unexpected - it was extremely challenging.
She's born and raised with wildlife, living with a zoo. What would be strange for Bindi is if she were in an apartment in suburbia with a goldfish.
I think being in a car is far more dangerous. I feel much more in control with a 16 foot croc, 3,000 pounds jaw pressure trying to have a go at me.
Petroleum is the product of a distillation from great depth and issues from the primitive rocks beneath which the forces of all volcanic action lie.