Quotes About The Galapagos Islands

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

Frans Lanting

#2. 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

#3. 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

#4. 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

#5. 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

#6. 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

#7. I've worked very hard for everything I have and nothing has come easy.

LeAnn Rimes

#8. The women all want to dance. I dance all night every night.

Minnesota Fats

#9. I prefer nothing, unless it is true.

Plato

#10. Be who you want to be. Not what they think you should be.

Lisa M. Cronkhite

#11. If you're out, and starving, and need a bite to eat, then you need fast food.

Nicholas Hoult

#12. Darkness is only driven out with light, not more darkness.

Martin Luther King Jr.

#13. To glorify the cult of images (my great, my only, my primitive passion).

Charles Baudelaire

#14. Measures of self-government and a school council, especially for such young children, were a great innovation.

Dora Russell

#15. You have to escape from management land and get in touch with your people.

David Cottrell