Species Quotes
We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation.
Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world.
We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.
This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.
As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones.
As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
Children are a kind of indicator species. If we can build a successful city for children, we will have a successful city for all people.
I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.
Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species.
Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.
Asperger's syndrome has probably been an important and valuable characteristic of our species throughout evolution.
We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting.
A lot of people have this ego need that makes them want to believe that Earth is the center of the universe and humans are the most important species, the supreme expression of creation.
We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.
What nature does in the course of long periods we do every day when we suddenly change the environment in which some species of living plant is situated.
What is a fish without a river? What is a bird without a tree to nest in? What is an Endangered Species Act without any enforcement mechanism to ensure their habitat is protected? It is nothing.
It is the poverty connected with our species which subordinates one man to another. It is not inequality which is the real misfortune, it is dependence.
I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution.
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We [people] are a species that's wired to tell stories. We need stories. It's how we make sense of things. It's how we learn.
Coral reefs represent some of the worlds most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the seas most exquisite species will not survive.
With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.
We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure.
I do have my concerns for mankind as a species. Way I see it, humans are in transition. Accelerating at f**king light speed into some new insanity, and no one really knows how it's going to turn out.
Indeed, I was unable to find any evidence whatsoever of the occurrence of a drastic evolutionary acceleration and genetic reconstruction in widespread, populous species.
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species.
Currently poaching threatens the very existence of the African Elephant, and my worry is that if we do not act NOW, we could be looking at a future in which this iconic species is wiped out.
If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.
The world must live. We are only one species among billions. The gods don't love us any more than they love spiders or bears or whales or water lilies.
A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.
Today, I’m a conservationist because I believe that my species doesn’t have the right or option to determine the fate of other species, even ones that inspire fear in us.
Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of ‘power’ over other species.
The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back.
When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished.
I believe in reincarnation. In my last life I was a peasant. Next time around, I'd like to be an eagle. Who hasn't dreamed they could fly? They're a protected species, too.