Barbara Kingsolver
Author, Biologist
"We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts."
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Mammals
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Carl Jung
Psychiatrist, Psychoanalyst
"The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals."
Jim Morrison
Musician, Poet
"There's nothing wrong with being a large mammal."
Charles Darwin
Naturalist, Geologist
"He who is not content to look, like a savage, at the phenomena of nature as disconnected, cannot any longer believe that man is the work of a separate act of creation ... Man is the co-descendant with other mammals of a common progenitor."
Christopher Hitchens
Author, Critic, Journalist
"Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish."
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"We haven't been able yet to determine in terms of genes what makes a human being a human and not another mammal."
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"Perhaps the most mysterious of all mammals is the male Homo sapiens. Indeed, many anthropologists classify the group as a subspecies."
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"Homo sapiens are the only mammals who intentionally hold Beard Of Bees competitions."
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"Every civilized human being, whatever his conscious development, is still an archaic man at the deeper levels of his psyche. Just as the human body connects us with the mammals and displays numerous relics of earlier evolutionary stages going back to even the reptilian age, so the human psyche is likewise a product of evolution which, when followed up to its origins, show countless archaic traits."
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"The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know it. The birds have no such power, nor do the insects, nor does any mammal. Yet if we have the capacity to destroy the earth, so, too, do we have the capacity to protect it."
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"We may have charted all the continents on the planet, and we may have discovered all the mammals, but that doesn't mean that there's nothing left to explore on Earth."
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