Henry Fairfield Osborn Quote

There is no risk in making the flat statement that in a world devoid of other living creatures, man himself would die. This fact — call it a theory if you will — is far more provable than the accepted theory of relativity. Involved in it is, in truth, another kind of principle of relativity — the relatedness of all living things.


Our Plundered Planet (p. 60), Grosset & Dunlap, Publishers. 1951


There is no risk in making the flat statement that in a world devoid of other living creatures, man himself would die. This fact — call it a theory ...

There is no risk in making the flat statement that in a world devoid of other living creatures, man himself would die. This fact — call it a theory ...

There is no risk in making the flat statement that in a world devoid of other living creatures, man himself would die. This fact — call it a theory ...

There is no risk in making the flat statement that in a world devoid of other living creatures, man himself would die. This fact — call it a theory ...