If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
Edward O. WilsonHere and there awareness is growing that man, far from being the overlord of all creation, is himself part of nature, subject to the same cosmic forces that control all other life. Man's future welfare and probably even his survival depend upon his learning to live in harmony, rather than in combat, with these forces."
Essay on the Biological Sciences, in: Good Reading (1958)
Tag: life humanity nature mankind survival cosmos
Presumptuous Man! the reason wouldst thou find,
Why form'd so weak, so little, and so blind?
First, if thou canst, the harder reason guess,
Why form'd no weaker, blinder, and no less!
Ask of thy mother earth, why oaks are made
Taller or stronger than the weeds they shade?
Or ask of yonder argent fields above,
Why Jove's Satellites are less than Jove?
Religion can only do two things for mankind; turn them into monster or stupid.
M.F. MoonzajerTag: religion mankind stupid monster
What a Chimera is man! What a novelty, a monster, a chaos, a contradiction, a prodigy! Judge of all things, an imbecile worm; depository of truth, and sewer of error and doubt; the glory and refuse of the universe.
Blaise PascalTag: mankind
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And it has always been a mystery, and I've marveled a thousand times at this ability of man (and, it seems, of the Russian man above all) to cherish the highest ideal in his soul alongside the greatest baseness, and all that in perfect sincerity. --The Adolescent (or, The Raw Youth)
Fyodor DostoevskyTag: mankind russian-literature dostoevsky
On that day, mankind received a grim reminder. We lived in fear of the Titans and were disgraced to live in these cages we called walls.
Hajime IsayamaTag: fear mankind cages reminder
We shall require a substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive.
Albert EinsteinTag: thinking mankind evolution survival
Mankind made up a version of reality we could all live in.
Christopher HawkeTag: reality mankind version making-your-own-reality
He that accuses all mankind of corruption ought to remember that he is sure to convict only one.
Edmund BurkeTag: mankind corruption yourself conviction
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