Quotes for All
The chorus-ending from Aristophanes, raised every night from every ditch that drains into the Mediterranean, hoarse and primeval as the raven’s croak, is one of the grandest tunes to walk by. Or on a night in May, one can walk through the too rare Italian forests for an hour on end and never be out … Read more
After all, the living book of God’s creation lies open for all to see; it points constantly to the divine calling for which we were placed in nature. Nature is a continual admonition to us, for nowhere has God’s creation departed so far from its origin and primeval purpose as in the human race. Eberhard … Read more
The cutting of primeval forest and other disasters, fueled by the demands of growing human populations, are the overriding threat to biological diversity everywhere. E. O. Wilson
Organic chemistry just now is enough to drive one mad. It gives me the impression of a primeval forest full of the most remarkable things, a monstrous and boundless thicket, with no way of escape, into which one may well dread to enter. Friedrich Wohler
It is emphatically the case that life could not arise spontaneously in a primeval soup of any kind…. Furthermore, no geological evidence indicates an organic soup ever existed on this planet. We may therefore with fairness call this scenario the myth of the pre-biotic soup. Fred Hoyle
The likelihood of the formation of life from inanimate matter is 1 to a number with 40,000 noughts after it (1040,000)…. It is big enough to bury Darwin and the whole theory of evolution. There was no primeval soup, neither on this planet nor any other, and if the beginnings of life were not random, … Read more
[The story of Adam and Eve] it’s poetry. One must interpret it as poetry. The first 11 chapters of Genesis [the Primeval History] are absolutely remarkable. Frank Moore Cross
War is behavior with roots in the single cell of the primeval seas. Eat whatever you touch or it will eat you. Frank Herbert
To me the poets are closer than I am to the idea of voice, to a sort of primeval song that we all participate in. Francesco Clemente
On a feeling and sensitive mind a demolished forest impresses unmingled sadness, whereas its primeval grandeur must inspire anyone to immeasurable delight, who is susceptible to the beauties of nature. Ferdinand von Mueller