nature Quotes

Tortoises can survive for weeks without food or water, easily long enough to float in the Humboldt Current from South America to the Galapagos Islands.

As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them.

I have often said that I am a passionate Darwinian when it comes to explaining why we exist.

Humans are just a very, very small part of the panoply of life, and it is arguable that in a certain sense, humans have emancipated themselves from Darwinian selection.

Islands are natural workshops of evolution.

Evolution never looks to the future.

There's a mystical strain in every country, and eclipses are likely to bring that out.

Land really is the best art.

I think having land and not ruining it is the most beautiful art that anybody could ever want to own.

Nothing is softer or more flexible than water, yet nothing can resist it.