Species Quotes
Species Quote of the day
We are the only species of mammal that doubts our ability to give birth. It's profitable to scare women about birth. But let's stop it. I tell women: Your body is not a lemon.
Much as we might wish to believe otherwise, universal love and the welfare of the species as a whole are concepts which simply do not make evolutionary sense.
People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.
Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshipping.
Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?
We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk!
A man, who can, in cold blood, hunt and torture a poor, innocent animal, cannot feel much compassion for the distress of his own species.
If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.
The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.
Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species.
There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.
Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.
Single-mindedness is all very well in cows or baboons; in an animal claiming to belong to the same species as Shakespeare, it is simply disgraceful.
Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.
There exists a species of transcendental ventriloquism by means of which men can be made to believe that something said on earth comes from Heaven.
Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended.
We cannot win this battle to save species and environments without forging an emotional bond between ourselves and nature as well - for we will not fight to save what we do not love.
Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest.
I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species.
The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are inseparable.
Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration.
We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.
Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.
It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save species, we're actually saving ourselves.
And let us dispose of a common misconception. The complete transmutation of even one animal species into a different species has never been directly observed either in the laboratory or in the field.
The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.
We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own.
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.
There are certain books in the world which every searcher for truth must know: the Bible, the Critique of Pure Reason, the Origin of Species, and Karl Marx's Capital.
Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend.
Destroying species is like tearing pages out of an unread book, written in a language humans hardly know how to read, about the place where they live.
We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories.
I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.
Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.
As our own species is in the process of proving, one cannot have superior science and inferior morals. The combination is unstable and self-destroying.
Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way it diminishes, without thinking, all the other species around it.