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I really liked insects - all kinds: flies, grasshoppers, weevils. — Ben Silbermann

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

When speaking of the mighty Andes and the so-called "eyebrows" country at the range's eastern base - the Tropical Wet Forest region - I am first obliged to give homage to the Apu, the Mountain Lords, the ice-capped everlasting sovereigns of these great lands, on whose forested slopes manifests the most marvelous biological diversity. — Jonathon Miller Weisberger Rainforest...

With man it is different. When he comes many of the larger animals instinctively leave the district entirely, seldom if ever to return; and thus it has always been with the great anthropoids. They flee man as man flees a pestilence. — Edgar Rice Burroughs Tarzan of the...

As a spirit schooled to power, his perception stems from one absolute. Universal harmony begins with recognition that the life in an ordinary pebble is as sacred as conscious selfhood. — Janny Wurts The Curse of the...

Industry, and indeed, even people within the Forest Service itself, continue to try to sell us the emperor's myth that clearcuts imitate wildfires, and as such, are healthy, but clearcuts don't leave behind the forest's nutrients, and don't leave behind standing spars and snags for hiding cover and cavity nests for birds and small mammals. Saying a clearcut is like a wildfire is like saying a bank robbery is the same thing as a savings withdrawal. — Rick Bass The Wild Marsh:...

The near-simultaneous disappearance of so many large species raises an obvious question: what caused it? An obvious possible answer is that they were killed off or else eliminated indirectly by the first arriving humans. Recall — Jared Diamond Guns, Germs, and...

Don't you find it a beautiful clean thought, a world empty of people, just uninterrupted grass, and a hare sitting up?

It isn't the world at stake, Ender. Just us. Just humankind. As far as the rest of the earth is concerned, we could be wiped out and it would adjust, it would get on with the next step in evolution....

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We all had to pay, but not for the crimes we were accused of. There were other scores to settle.

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Why are they going to disappear him? I don't know. It doesn't make sense. It isn't even good...

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