Quotes About Galapagos Islands

#1. The Galapagos Islands are probably the most famous wildlife-watching destination in the world. And no wonder - it's almost impossible to exaggerate the sheer spectacle of the place that provided inspiration for Charles Darwin's ground-breaking theory of natural selection.

Mark Carwardine

#2. Becoming a bird ecologist was just luck! I had the chance to be a field assistant for a scientist working in the Galapagos Islands, and while I was there, I saw a particular problem in behavioral biology that I wanted to solve and, in the process, made myself into a bird ecologist.

David J. Anderson

#3. Douglas Mock has assembled the animal behavioural evidence in More than Kin and Less than Kind.6 In the Galapagos Islands young fur seals attack their newborn siblings, seizing them by the throat and tossing them into the air, killing them unless the mother seal intervenes.

Jonathan Sacks

#4. I love travelling, and had the pleasure of being in the most developed country in the world and then parts of two of the most pristine natural areas of the world: the Galapagos islands and the Equador Amazon jungle. The contrast was incredible.

Adam Garcia

#5. 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.

Richard Dawkins

#6. The Galapagos Islands provide a window on time. In a geologic sense, the islands are young, yet they appear ancient.

Frans Lanting

#7. I don't think you know what you want."
"Yes. I do. I want you, and being with you feels a hell of a lot better than being without you. I'm not going to fight it anymore.

Rachel Gibson

#8. A true rationalist ought to be effective in the real world.

Eliezer Yudkowsky

#9. The universal truth is beyond question-the only people who excel are those who have decided to do so.

Seth Godin

#10. I used to say in interviews that I don't necessarily want to be the first black woman or first model to do certain things; I just want to see it done.

Tyra Banks

#11. Everyone deserves good love.

Denene Millner

#12. Love was the hardest thing. Don't let anyone ever tell you different.

Kate Atkinson

#13. There's an indie movie I did called 'Fat Kid Rules the World,' which was based on a teen book, and it's a fabulous story, and hopefully it'll go to theaters because it is an amazing story.

Lili Simmons

#14. He hated this feeling of free-floating, just drifting from place to place, thought to thought, without any sense of anchor or root.

Nora Roberts

#15. The way the creative process works is that .you first say something, and later, sometimes years later, you understand what you said.

Michael Lewis

#16. Every man needs a good, solid watch. My favorite watch is the Presidential Rolex. I own many watches, but this one is usually the one on my wrist. I buy mine in the Diamond District in New York City. Classic.

French Montana

#17. If you want to be a leader, you've got to be a reader.

David A. Noebel

#18. The sun's bright. Like really fucking bright. Maybe it's because I've been trapped indoors for the last few weeks. Or maybe it's because I feel so dark inside.

Jessica Sorensen

#19. That this is Russian-A flu, not the more dangerous Swine flu.

Stephen King