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Naturalist Inspirational Quotes (4772)

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If this is not done, future ages will certainly look back upon us as a people so immersed in the pursuit of wealth as to be blind to higher considerations.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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As well might it be said that, because we are ignorant of the laws by which metals are produced and trees developed, we cannot know anything of the origin of steamships and railways
Alfred Russel Wallace
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I hold with Henry George, that at the back of every great social evil will be found a great political wrong
Alfred Russel Wallace
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What we need are not prohibitory marriage laws, but a reformed society, an educated public opinion which will teach individual duty in these matters
Alfred Russel Wallace
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Civilisation has ever accompanied emigration and conquest - the conflict of opinion, of religion, or of race
Alfred Russel Wallace
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What birds can have their bills more peculiarly formed than the ibis, the spoonbill, and the heron?
Alfred Russel Wallace
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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
Alfred Russel Wallace
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I am thankful I can see much to admire in all religions.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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It has been generally the custom of writers on natural history to take the habits and instincts of animals as the fixed point, and to consider their structure and organization as specially adapted to be in accordance with them.
Alfred Russel Wallace
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...how deep the ruts of tradition and conformity!
Henry David Thoreau
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One may as well dam for water tanks the people's cathedrals and churches, for no holier temple has ever been consecrated by the heart of man.
John Muir
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We despise and abhor the bully, the brawler, the oppressor, whether in private or public life, but we despise no less the coward and the voluptuary. No man is worth calling a man who will not fight rather than submit to infamy or see those that are dear to him suffer wrong.
Theodore Roosevelt
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The most successful politician is he who says what the people are thinking most often in the loudest voice.
Theodore Roosevelt
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If you give money, spend yourself with it.
Henry David Thoreau
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We invest far off places with a certain romance... Long summers, mild winters, rich harvests, plentiful game none of them lasts for ever. Your own life, or your bands, or even your species - might be owed to a restless few, drawn by a craving they can hardly articulate or understand, to undiscovered lands, and new worlds.
Carl Sagan
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All these sounds, the crowing of cocks, the baying of dogs, and the hum of insects at noon, are the evidence of nature's health orsound state.
Henry David Thoreau
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All nations love the same jests and tales, Jews, Christians, and Mahometans, and the same translated suffice for all.
Henry David Thoreau
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UFOs: The reliable cases are uninteresting and in the interesting cases are unreliable.
Carl Sagan
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The great man is always the man of mighty effort.
Theodore Roosevelt
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We are the heirs of the ages
Theodore Roosevelt
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As a natural process, of the same character as the development of a tree from its seed, or of a fowl from its egg, evolution excludes creation and all other kinds of supernatural intervention.
Thomas Huxley
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Example is the softest and least invidious way of commanding.
Pliny the Elder
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Our taste is too delicate and particular. It says nay to the poet's work, but never yea to his hope.
Henry David Thoreau
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The isness of things is well worth studying but it is their whyness that makes life worth living.
William Beebe
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