Diversity Of Life Quotes

• In diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

  Maya Angelou

  Inspirational, Strength, Beauty

  Maya Angelou (2014). “Rainbow in the Cloud: The Wit and Wisdom of Maya Angelou”, p.9, Hachette UK

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• There never were, in the world, two opinions alike, no more than two hairs, or two grains; the most universal quality is diversity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Two, Hair, Justice

  Michel de Montaigne (2015). “Essays of Montaigne”, p.922, Xist Publishing

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• We all should know that diversity makes for a rich tapestry, and we must understand that all the threads of the tapestry are equal in value no matter what their color.

  Maya Angelou

  Color, Kwanzaa, Common Threads

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• It is time for parents to teach young people early on that in diversity there is beauty and there is strength.

  Maya Angelou

  Strength, Educational, Teaching

  Twitter post from Jul 13, 2016

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• If we are to achieve a richer culture, rich in contrasting values, we must recognize the whole gamut of human potentialities, and so weave a less arbitrary social fabric, one in which each diverse human gift will find a fitting place.

  Margaret Mead

  Women, History, Diversity

  Sex and Temperament in Three Primitive Societies conclusion (1935)

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• We become not a melting pot but a beautiful mosaic. Different people, different beliefs, different yearnings, different hopes, different dreams.

  Jimmy Carter

  Beautiful, Dream, America

  Speech, Pittsburgh, Pa., 27 Oct. 1976

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• The most universal quality is diversity.

  Michel de Montaigne

  Diversity, Quality, Universal

  Michel de Montaigne (1872). “All the Essays of Michael Seigneur de Montaigne”, p.656

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• Peace is not unity in similarity but unity in diversity, in the comparison and conciliation of differences.

  Mikhail Gorbachev

  Kids, Differences, Diversity

  Mikhail Sergeevich Gorbachev, Green Cross International (2011). “Mikhail Gorbachev: Prophet of Change : from the Cold War to a Sustainable World”, p.53, CLAIRVIEW BOOKS

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• People may be said to resemble not the bricks of which a house is built, but the pieces of a picture puzzle, each differing in shape, but matching the rest, and thus bringing out the picture.

  Felix Adler

  People, Diversity, House

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  There are no nations! There is only humanity. And if we don't come to understand that right soon, there will be no nations, because there will be no humanity.

  Isaac Asimov

  Diversity, Understanding, Humanity

  Isaac Asimov (2009). “I, Asimov: A Memoir”, p.592, Bantam

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• Human diversity makes tolerance more than a virtue; it makes it a requirement for survival.

  Rene Dubos

  Differences, Diversity, Tolerance

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• How far you go in life depends on your being tender with the young, compassionate with the aged, sympathetic with the striving and tolerant of the weak and strong. Because someday in your life you will have been all of these.

  George Washington Carver

  Inspirational, Funny, Life

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• I do not want my house to be walled in on all sides and my windows to be stuffed. I want the culture of all lands to be blown about my house as freely as possible. But I refuse to be blown off my feet by any

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Freedom, Land, Feet

  Mahatma Gandhi (1980). “All Men are Brothers: Autobiographical Reflections”, p.142, A&C Black

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• Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to imagine. To simplify the environment as we have done with agriculture is to destroy the complex interrelationships that hold the natural world together. Reducing the diversity of life, we narrow our options for the future and render our own survival more precarious.

  Cary Fowler

  Loss, Agriculture, Diversity

  Cary Fowler, Patrick R. Mooney (1990). “Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity”, p.9, University of Arizona Press

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• Great attention gets paid to rainforests because of the diversity of life there. Diversity in the oceans is even greater.

  Sylvia Earle

  Ocean, Marine, Sea

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• A new politics can spark the clean-energy revolution that will serve as a foundation for a new era of human prosperity, protect the world's forests, stabilize the climate, and preserve the diversity of life on the planet.

  Eban Goodstein

  Diversity, Foundation, Energy

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• We need to radically and intelligently reduce human populations to fewer than one billion. We need to eliminate nationalism and tribalism and become Earthlings. And as Earthlings, we need to recognize that all the other species that live on this planet are also fellow citizens and also Earthlings. This is a planet of incredible diversity of life-forms; it is not a planet of one species as many of us believe.

  Paul Watson

  Believe, Diversity, Citizens

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• Artificial selection turned the wolf into the shepherd, and the wild grasses into wheat and corn. In fact, almost every plant and animal that we eat today was bred from a wild, less edible ancestor. If artificial selection can work such profound changes in only ten or fifteen thousand years, what can natural selection do operating over billions of years? The answer is all the beauty and diversity of life.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Animal, Years, Profound

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• When I was very young, biology, the diversity of life, was one of my main interests. I know there's this image people have that I'm this spoiled, cocky punk of an actor. Honestly, that's not who I am. I really care that so many species have been wiped out, like genocide of entire races. I believe in the divine right of all species to survive on this planet. So I decided I want to be active as an environmentalist. I learned. I asked experts. I got active.

  Leonardo DiCaprio

  Believe, Cocky, Divine Right

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• The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that accounts for the adaptations of organisms, those innumerable features that so wonderfully equip them for survival and reproduction; it is this theory that accounts for the divergence of species from common ancestors and thus for the endless diversity of life. Natural selection is a simple concept, but it is perhaps the most important idea in biology.

  Douglas J. Futuyma

  Simple, Ideas, Diversity

  Douglas J. Futuyma (2009). “Evolution”, Sinauer Associates Incorporated

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• On a perfect planet such as might be acceptable to a physicist, one might predict that from its origin the diversity of life would grow exponentially until the carrying capacity, however defined, was reached. The fossil record on Earth, however, tells a very different story.

  Simon Conway Morris

  Life, Science, Perfect

  "Peter D. Ward, Donald Brownlee Rare Earth: Why Complex Life is Uncommon in the Universe, Springer Science & Business Media, p. 83". en.wikiquote.org. December 10, 2003.

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• For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earths true past was dug up in abundance.

  Kenneth R. Miller

  Believe, Past, Diversity

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• Publicly and among themselves biologists rightly celebrate the diversity of life on Earth... At the end of the day, however, their confession is heard by no one: they work with a single scientific sample-life on Earth.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Science, Diversity, The End Of The Day

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• I remember I would not stand still; I would not stop being perplexed by everything that spontaneously attracted me or caught my attention. I would never cease to look around me and observe myself in relation to nature: either crystal clear skies and sun-melting afternoons, or foggy winter days and weirdly tinted nights. I would never cease to dream and stand by the window, ready to let the diversity of life pass freely through my skin; courageous enough to believe I stood a chance in devouring each shade of sensation. Or perhaps, immensely foolish to plainly - believe at all.

  Virginia Woolf

  Dream, Believe, Winter

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• Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation sitting there in Darwin's 'Origin of Species' that you apply and say, 'What is this species going to look like in 100 years or 1,000 years?' Biology isn't there yet with that kind of predictive precision.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Years, Theory Of Evolution, Diversity

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