Quotes by Mammals How come Aquaman can control whales? They’re mammals! Makes no sense. Andy Weir mammalswhales We're animals. We're born like every other mammal and we live our whole lives around disguised animal thoughts. Barbara Kingsolver mammalsbornanimal The mind has grown to its present state of consciousness as an acorn grows into an oak, or as saurians developed into mammals. Carl Jung mammalsacornsmind 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. Carl Jung mammalsagemen Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable as viruses and so if there was a virus that infected our pre mammal ancestors like 250 million years ago, which it probably did, we can't see it because it just looks totally random. Carl Zimmer mammalsvirusesyears Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair. Cees Nooteboom mammalshairmen 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. Charles Darwin mammalsmenbelieve Man can be defined, if one wishes, as a languag-ized mammal. Charlton Laird mammalswishmen Distrust compassion; prefer dignity for yourself and others. Don't be afraid to be thought arrogant or selfish. Christopher Hitchens mammalsselfishcompassion For nearly 2 million years, our ancestors survived and thrived and spread across the planet because they could run other mammals into heat exhaustion. Christopher McDougall mammalsrunningyears 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. Dalai Lama mammalsdoebird Homo sapiens are the only mammals who intentionally hold Beard Of Bees competitions. Dana Gould mammalsbeardcompetition Spiders so large they appear to be wearing the pelts of small mammals. Dave Barry mammalsspiders Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment. David Attenborough mammalssurvivalsuccessful Warm-bloodedness is one of the key factors that have enabled mammals to conquer the Earth, and to develop the most complex bodies in the animal kingdom. In this series, we will travel the world to discover just how varied and how astonishing mammals are. David Attenborough mammalskeysanimal We already live a very long time for mammals, getting three times as many heartbeats as a mouse or elephant. It never seems enough though, does it? David Brin mammalselephantslong Humans are now the most numerous mammal on the planet. There are more humans than rats or mice. Humans have a huge ecological footprint, magnified by their technology. David Suzuki mammalsenvironmentaltechnology If we mammals don't get something to eat every day or two, our temperature drops, all our signs fall off, and we begin to starve. Living at biological red alert, it's not surprising how obsessed we are with food; I'm just amazed we don't pace and fret about it all the time. Diane Ackerman mammalstwofall Man is the only mammal whose normal method of locomotion is to walk on two legs. A pattern of mammal behavior that emerges only once in the whole history of life on earth takes a great deal of explaining. Elaine Morgan mammalsmentwo Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate large quantities of adipose tissue - hibernating mammals and aquatic mammals. Elaine Morgan mammalsclasstwo123»
