"To hunt a species to extinction is not logical." Mr. Spock, Star Trek IV
"When we try to pick out anything by itself, we find it hitched to everything else in the Universe." John Muir, My First Summer in the Sierra, 1911
"No educated person any longer questions the validity of the so-called theory of evolution, which we now know to be a simple fact." Ernst Mayr, the great evolutionary biologist, from "Darwin's influence on modern thought," Scientific American, July 2000
"The biology of purpose keeps my nose above the surface, ooh." Brian Eno, King's Lead Hat
"What's the use of a house if you don't have a decent planet to put it on." Henry David Thoreau
"We live on an Earth that is the best of all possible worlds but only for those who have adapted to it." H. Holland, The Chemical Evolution of the Atmosphere and Oceans
"We see them come. We see them go. Some are fast. And some are slow. Some are high. And some are low. Not one of them is like another. Don't ask us why. Go ask your mother." Theodor Seuss Geisel, One Fish Two Fish Red Fish Blue Fish
"The earth provides enough to satisfy every person's need but not every person's greed.... When we take more than we need, we are simply taking from each other, borrowing from the future, or destroying the environment and other species." Mahatma Ghandi
"What is common to the greatest number has the least care bestowed upon it." Aristotle
"Plant a new Truffula. Treat it with care. Give it clean water. And feed it fresh air. Grow a forest. Protect it from axes that hack. Then the Lorax and all of his friends may come back." Theodor Seuss Geisel, The Lorax
"How odd it is that anyone should not see that all observation must be for or against some view if it is to be of any service!" Charles Darwin
"Do what we can, summer will have its flies." Ralph Waldo Emerson
"There is nothing in a caterpillar that tells you it's going to be a butterfly." Buckminster Fuller
"As anyone who has spent any part of a summer in the Mediterranean countryside can attest, the cicada, mostly through its incessant singing during the hot daylight hours, is a constant and ubiquitous contributor to the ambiance. It has been so of course for millennia; certainly for as long as there have been people in that part of the world there have been cicadas insistently drumming their music into human ears." Rory B. Egan, Cicadas in Ancient Greece
"The plow is one of the most ancient and most valuable of man's inventions; but long before he existed the land was in fact regularly plowed, and still continues to be thus plowed by earthworms. It may be doubted whether there are many other animals which have played so important a part in the history of the world, as have these lowly organized creatures. Charles Darwin, The Formation of Vegetable Mould Through the Action of Worms, 1837
"run like moths we drift into the city, the timeless old attraction, cruising for the action, lit up like a firefly just to feel the living night…" Neil Peart from Rush, Subdivisions
Other Quotes/Lyrics
"The
mountain remains unmoved at seeming defeat by the mist." Rabindranath Tagore
- poet, philosopher, songwriter, educator, Nobel laureate
"Happiness is when what you think, what you say, and what you do are in
harmony." Mohandas K. Gandhi
"Speech is conveniently located midway between thought and action, where
it often substitutes for both." John Andrew Holmes
"resting in the fields, far from the turbulent space, half asleep 'neath the stars, with a small dog licking your face..." Bob Dylan, Jokerman, 1983
“Half of the people can be part right all of the time, some of the people can be all right part of the time. But all of the people can’t be right all of the time. I think Abraham Lincoln said that. ‘I'll let you be in my dreams if I can be in yours,’ I said that.” Bob Dylan, Talkin' World War III Blues, 1963
"They took all the trees, put 'em in a tree museum, and they charged the people a dollar and a half just to see 'em, don't it always seem to go that you don't know what you've got till it's gone, they paved paradise and put up a parking lot." Joni Mitchell, Big Yellow Taxi
"The common condition of things that did not happen is that you cannot disprove them." Anonymous
"Things forbidden have a secret value." C. Everett Koop, on teenage smoking
"Smoking is one of the leading causes of statistics." tobacco companies response to Dr. Koop
"You have brains in your head. You have feet in your shoes. You can steer yourself any direction you choose. You're on your own. And you know what you know. And YOU are the guy who'll decide where to go." Theodor Seuss Geisel, Oh, the Places You'll Go
"All our science, measured against reality, is primitive and childlike - and yet it is the most precious thing we have." Albert Einstein, genius
"The laws of thermodynamics control the rise and fall of political systems, the freedom or bondage of nations, the movements of commerce and industry, the origins of wealth and poverty, and the general physical welfare of the human race." Frederick Soddy, Nobel Laureate in Chemistry
"I've lost a few more hairs. I think I'm... I'm going bald." Rush, I Think I'm Going Bald
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