Thoreau Wildflower Quotes & Sayings

Moreover, like eyes and arms, the fundamental structures of the mind (and the informational capacities they support) aren't acquired through experience: the pioneering ethologists realized that behavior in general must be understood in the light of evolution, and this same conviction is held by the new wave of cognitive ethologists. Whatever else may be said, we expect to find that many (if not all) of the critical properties of animal minds are - like motor patterns - intrinsic traits of an organism that are adaptive consequences of evolution. — Raymond Coppinger

Even one heatstroke death is one too many because every death caused by leaving a child unattended in a hot car is 100 percent avoidable. — Anthony Foxx

I shrug. You're a part of me, Olivia. Anything that involves you is always about us. — Veronica Rossi

A ship is a bit of terra firma cut off from the main; it is a state in itself; and the captain is its king. — Herman Melville

Ah, the rheumy-eyed grandpa on the terraces inducting the lad into the mysteries of soccer: how to loathe people wearing different coloured shirts, how to feign injury, how to blow your snot onto the pitch - See, son, you press hard on one nostril to close it, and explode the green stuff out of the other. How to be vain and overpaid and have your best years behind you before you've even understood what life's about. Oh yes, I look forward to taking Lucas to the football. But — Julian Barnes

When most people think about my work, they think about diet. To me, diet has always been the least interesting part of it. — Dean Ornish