Quotes about Species

The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline. Votes: 6

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. Votes: 6

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories. Votes: 4

For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. Votes: 4

Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community. Votes: 4

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species. Votes: 4

Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species. Votes: 4

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature. Votes: 4

Why, if species have descended from other species by insensibly fine gradations, do we not everywhere see innumerable transitional forms. Votes: 4

It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. Votes: 4

I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable. Votes: 4

Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

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. Votes: 4

We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act. Votes: 4

It is not the most intellectual of the species that survives; it is not the strongest that survives; but the species that survives is the one that is able best to adapt and adjust to the changing environment in which it finds itself. Votes: 4

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness. Votes: 4

Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that. Votes: 4

Until we establish a felt sense of kinship between our own species and those fellow mortals who share with us the sun and shadow of life on this agonized planet, there is no hope for other species, there is no hope for the environment, and there is no hope for ourselves. Votes: 4

Owing to this struggle for life, any variation, however slight and from whatever cause proceeding, if it be in any degree profitable to an individual of any species, in its infinitely complex relationship to other organic beings and to external nature, will tend to the preservation of that individual, and will generally be inherited by its offspring. Votes: 4

New Rule: Gay marriage won't lead to dog marriage. It is not a slippery slope to rampant inter-species coupling. When women got the right to vote, it didn't lead to hamsters voting. No court has extended the equal protection clause to salmon. And for the record, all marriages are "same sex" marriages. You get married, and every night, it's the same sex. Votes: 4

What an extraordinary time to be alive. We're the first people on our planet to have real choice: we can continue killing each other, wiping out other species, spoiling our nest. Yet on every continent a revolution in human dignity is emerging. It is re-knitting community and our ties to the earth. So we do have a choice. We can choose death; or we can choose life. Votes: 4

Species can be recognized by their morphological characteristics and songs. Votes: 3

Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public. Votes: 3

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design. Votes: 3

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession. Votes: 3

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession." Votes: 3

The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes. Votes: 3

Every philosophical thinker hails it [The Origin of Species] as a veritable Whitworth gun in the armoury of liberalism. Votes: 3

Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is 'The Origin of Species.' Votes: 3

I scored a movie called 'Endangered Species'. I worked on another movie called 'Staying Alive'. A German film called 'Fire and Ice'. Votes: 3

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago. Votes: 3

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords. Votes: 2

On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. Votes: 2

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse. Votes: 2

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. Votes: 2

We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations. Votes: 2

A dog is a vehicle, you know; a dog is a window to Mother Nature, and that's the closest species we have. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the continuing survival of the species. Votes: 2

We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. It's just not in usable form yet. Votes: 2

Coral reefs represent some of the world's most spectacular beauty spots, but they are also the foundation of marine life: without them many of the sea's most exquisite species will not survive. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

Mushrooms are miniature pharmaceutical factories, and of the thousands of mushroom species in nature, our ancestors and modern scientists have identified several dozen that have a unique combination of talents that improve our health. Votes: 2

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. Votes: 2

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. Votes: 2

We'll all die out eventually. Humans will be gone. And all I'm saying is, when people worry about polar bears disappearing or whatever, it's like, 'Well that's life, things will come and go, we'll find new species.' Votes: 2

We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't find answers to these problems, we're gonna be victims of this extinction event that we're at fault for. Votes: 2

It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales. Votes: 2

One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has. Votes: 2

The very fact that we are having a national conversation about what we should eat, that we are struggling with the question about what the best diet is, is symptomatic of how far we have strayed from the natural conditions that gave rise to our species, from the simple act of eating real, whole, fresh food. Votes: 2

Darwin's theory of evolution is a framework by which we understand the diversity of life on Earth. But there is no equation sitting there in Darwin's 'Origin of Species' that you apply and say, 'What is this species going to look like in 100 years or 1,000 years?' Biology isn't there yet with that kind of predictive precision. Votes: 2

Strangers are an endangered species ... Votes: 0

Endangered species are our friends. Votes: 0

We're a fast-moving, needy species. Votes: 0

As a species we're fundamentally insane. Votes: 0

Without argument the species would parish. Votes: 0

Males are the most incomprehensible species. Votes: 0

We are a naturally hierarchical species. Votes: 0

Gratitude is a species of justice. Votes: 0

My friends come from many species. Votes: 0

I might be an endangered species. Votes: 0

Dandyism is a species of genius. Votes: 0

Grief is a species of idleness. Votes: 0

I never liked my own species. Votes: 0

Greed is merely a species of nearsightedness. Votes: 0

Frivolity is the species' refusal to suffer. Votes: 0

One in eight plant species face extinction. Votes: 0

Hope is itself a species of happiness... Votes: 0

Like species, couples die out or evolve. Votes: 0

Humans need to be a multiplanet species. Votes: 0

Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence. Votes: 0

Abuse is an indirect species of homage. Votes: 0

We are a complex species to observe Votes: 0

Islands are where species go to die. Votes: 0

We are a very, very unusual species. Votes: 0

We are one species. We are starstuff. Votes: 0

The Human is the most insane species Votes: 0

Choice is a signature of our species. Votes: 0

Cities are the abyss of the human species. Votes: 0

We're the only species who hunts for sport. Votes: 0

Communism is an aggressive religion of the species. Votes: 0

A species divided against itself will eventually fall. Votes: 0

We are a species addicted to a stories. Votes: 0

To a good approximation, all species are insects. Votes: 0

Each individual is a species unto him/herself. Votes: 0

Global warming threatens the survival of our species. Votes: 0

My good mood felt like an endangered species. Votes: 0

I am a rare species, not a stereotype. Votes: 0

We must marry, have children, reproduce the species. Votes: 0

I think the human species is very suicidal. Votes: 0

Bad taste is a species of bad morals. Votes: 0

It's impossible by micro-mutation to form any new species. Votes: 0

Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar. Votes: 0

Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species. Votes: 0

A language, like a species, when extinct, never ... reappears. Votes: 0

What happens to other species also happens to us. Votes: 0

Ayahuasca is a symbiotic ally of the human species. Votes: 0

A false modesty is the meanest species of pride. Votes: 0

It's animal by animal that you save a species. Votes: 0

The world was not made for any one species. Votes: 0

Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself. Votes: 0

We are the only species systematically destroying its own habitat. Votes: 0

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species! Votes: 0

Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens Votes: 0

When you understand a species' art, you understand that species. Votes: 0

Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma. Votes: 0

Religion in the public square is becoming an endangered species. Votes: 0

Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species. Votes: 0

For the human species to evolve, the conversation must deepen. Votes: 0

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic. Votes: 0

There are three species of government: republican, monarchical, and despotic. Votes: 0

There exists above the "productive" man a yet higher species. Votes: 0

We are the species that clamors to be lied to. Votes: 0

The email of the species is deadlier than the mail. Votes: 0

Living in your genome is the history of our species. Votes: 0

Dogs and humans are symbiotic species. We need each other. Votes: 0

As a species we are always hungry for new knowledge. Votes: 0

There's money to be made by driving a species extinct. Votes: 0

Guns are not the problem. The species is the problem. Votes: 0

I read assiduously. I kept in touch with my species. Votes: 0

I recommend you stick to your own species, Shy Babe." p. 155 Votes: 0

People are largely ignorant of the interests of the human species. Votes: 0

Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work. Votes: 0

Although personally, I think cyberspace means the end of our species. Votes: 0

A schoolteacher or professor cannot educate individuals, he educates only species. Votes: 0

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed. Votes: 0

Ninety-nine percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct. Votes: 0

My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive. Votes: 0

Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere. Votes: 0

How beastly the bourgeois is especially the male of the species Votes: 0

But we think as people and countries, not as a species. Votes: 0

We are the only species on this planet without full employment. Votes: 0

Man is unique in organizing the mass murder of his own species. Votes: 0

If evolution exists in every living species, likewise so too does devolution. Votes: 0

The brain writes the autobiography of our species at the conscious level. Votes: 0

Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace. Votes: 0

We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant. Votes: 0

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans. Votes: 0

New mutations don't create new species; they create offspring that are impaired. Votes: 0

I feel that one species, mankind, doesn't have the right to exterminate Votes: 0

Humans are the one species the world could do very well without. Votes: 0

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species. Votes: 0

He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species. Votes: 0

The human species is forever in a state of change, forever becoming. Votes: 0

Perfectibility is one of the most unequivocal characteristics of the human species. Votes: 0

Story of our species...everyone knows it's coming, but not so soon. Votes: 0

Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals. Votes: 0

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more. Votes: 0

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius. Votes: 0

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness. Votes: 0

Actually I do support a charity, DefendersofWildLife.org. They help protect endangered species. Votes: 0

There are 400,000 species of beetles on this planet, but only 8,000 species of mammals. Votes: 0

The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species. Votes: 0

... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity. Votes: 0

Only after you've done the exorcism, thenyou'll understand that ghost's also a species. Votes: 0

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. Votes: 0

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species. Votes: 0

A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species. Votes: 0

Thermonuclear fusion is an absolute requirement, for the preservation of the human species. Votes: 0

Our health relies entirely on the vitality of our fellow species on Earth. Votes: 0

We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species. Votes: 0

How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species. Votes: 0

Opinions is a species of property - I am always desirous of sharing. Votes: 0

Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Votes: 0

99.99 percent of all species that have ever lived are no longer with us. Votes: 0

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species. Votes: 0

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species. Votes: 0

How do we love all the children of all species for all time? Votes: 0

Never trust a species that grins all the time. It's up to something. Votes: 0

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering. Votes: 0

I don't think of kids as a lower form of the human species. Votes: 0

A man does not please long when he has only species of wit. Votes: 0

The female of all species are most dangerous when they appear to retreat. Votes: 0

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species. Votes: 0

Your country is one of the most notorious centres of trading in endangered species. Votes: 0

Whatever misanthropists may say, ingrates and the perverse are exceptions in the human species. Votes: 0

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species. Votes: 0

When we transplant organs, we are enabling viruses to jump natural barriers between species. Votes: 0

I can't think of a greater legacy than, "Because you lived, another species survived." Votes: 0

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ... Votes: 0

It is a species of coquetry to make a parade of never practising it. Votes: 0

The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one. Votes: 0

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. Votes: 0

The human species, although happily ridiculous at times, is still reaching for the stars. Votes: 0

The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species. Votes: 0

As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species. Votes: 0

As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. Votes: 0

It's almost impossible to overpay the truly extraordinary CEO... but the species is rare. Votes: 0

Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species. Votes: 0

Jesus H. Christ. I have new respect for the female of the species suddenly. Votes: 0

What is revolution except a systematic way for one species to eat another alive? Votes: 0

I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person. Votes: 0

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it. Votes: 0

We are the first species to have taken our evolution into our own hands. Votes: 0

There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men. Votes: 0

Of course he would count the time that we'd been two entirely different species. Votes: 0

We are the only animals who steal and drink the milk from other species. Votes: 0

Intelligence is the ability of a species to live in harmony with its environment. Votes: 0

You know, quite a few species of fish require two or more sexual partners... Votes: 0

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute. Votes: 0

there are two types of the male species of Homo sapiens: men, and Italian men. Votes: 0

Karl Marx was right, socialism works, it is just that he had the wrong species Votes: 0

Discovering new species is a passion. A day without collecting plants is painful for me. Votes: 0

Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration. Votes: 0

A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species. Votes: 0

To be a painter now is to be part of a very small, endangered species. Votes: 0

Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of. Votes: 0

any mystery writer is both magician and moralist ... two species of artist in short supply. Votes: 0

I made efforts to swallow tears and to protect the species of the Japanese nation. Votes: 0

The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery. Votes: 0

Human vanity cherishes the absurd notion that our species is the final goal of evolution. Votes: 0

The human species is made up of seven billion subspecies each consisting of one specimen. Votes: 0

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about. Votes: 0

Man does not exist prior to language, either as a species or as an individual. Votes: 0

While the rest of the species is descended from apes, redheads are descended from cats. Votes: 0

Humanity as a species must change dramatically and radically or our survival is at stake... Votes: 0

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment. Votes: 0

Take care, be kind, be considerate of other people and other species, and be loving. Votes: 0

Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species. Votes: 0

However wretched a fellow-mortal may be, he is still a member of our common species. Votes: 0

Life was not a reversible commodity. Things passed away, never to return: species, hopes, years." Votes: 0

Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration, Votes: 0

No species, ours included, possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by its genetic history. Votes: 0

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. Votes: 0

Are you an aberration to your species?' she cried. 'Cats don't look for approval! Votes: 0

Man is the merriest species of the creation; all above or below him are serious. Votes: 0

People of different ethnicities are definitely not of differing species. Biologically speaking, people are people. Votes: 0

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit. Votes: 0

In the world of commercial speech, tobacco advertising bears the earmarks of an endangered species. Votes: 0

Asperger's syndrome has probably been an important and valuable characteristic of our species throughout evolution. Votes: 0

The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder. Votes: 0

As a species, I think we have no choice but to try and forecast pandemics. Votes: 0

The individual is at the apex of his species' past, at the entrance to its future. Votes: 0

For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun. Votes: 0

The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical. Votes: 0

[Reformers] might be classified as a distinct species having eyes in the back of their heads. Votes: 0

If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet. Votes: 0

Good teachers are an endangered species because they're giving up because of the tests and everything. Votes: 0

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones. Votes: 0

Wonderful theory, wrong species. (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans. Votes: 0

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor. Votes: 0

For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt. Votes: 0

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy. Votes: 0

Now it's the bee... Gees! Bees are now endangered species... Without them life won't be sweet! Votes: 0

We are that strange species that constructs artifacts intended to counter the natural flow of forgetting. Votes: 0

Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive. Votes: 0

Transitional forms are generally lacking at the species level, but they are abundant between larger groups. Votes: 0

If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago. Votes: 0

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying. Votes: 0

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love. Votes: 0

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion Votes: 0

A new species is arising on the planet, it is arising now and you are it. Votes: 0

By passing into the psychedelic phase, the space-faring phase, the entire species is passing into adolescence. Votes: 0

Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself. Votes: 0

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so. Votes: 0

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases. Votes: 0

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species. Votes: 0

If God wanted man to become a spacefaring species, he would have given man a moon. Votes: 0

To despise our own species is the price we must often pay for knowledge of it. Votes: 0

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species. Votes: 0

The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species. Votes: 0

Homosexuality is found in over 450 species. Homophobia is found in only 1. Which one seems unnatural now? Votes: 0

We have intelligent species on our planet that we are not even trying to communicate with. Votes: 0

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species. Votes: 0

Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years. Votes: 0

Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct. Votes: 0

I absolutely believe the species, the planet and the Universe can't survive if we function on hate. Votes: 0

Perhaps our greatest distinction as a species is our capacity, unique among animals, to make counter-evolutionary choices. Votes: 0

Permaculture is an integrated, evolving system of perennial and self-perpetuating plants and animal species useful to man. Votes: 0

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient. Votes: 0

If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for? Votes: 0

What we should be doing is saving habitats, not single species, no matter what their cuteness factor. Votes: 0

There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile. Votes: 0

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species. Votes: 0

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. Votes: 0

We owe our existence to innovation. Our species exists thanks to four billion years of genetic innovation. Votes: 0

At a time when individualism is becoming an endangered species, jazz represents a celebration of the individual. Votes: 0

There was one species of despotism under which he had long groaned, and that was petticoat government. Votes: 0

My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species. Votes: 0

The best paradoxes raise questions about what kinds of contradictions can occur-what species of impossibilities are possible. Votes: 0

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species. Votes: 0

I will endanger your species like an ostrich, Hold you hostage, and crazy feed you swine sausage! Votes: 0

The extension of life beyond Earth is the most important thing we can do as a species. Votes: 0

As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight Votes: 0

Mystics are no humans but a species different; they are always young and never do they die. Votes: 0

Antiquity is a species of aristocracy with which it is not easy to be on visiting terms. Votes: 0

If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species. Votes: 0

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species. Votes: 0

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive. Votes: 0

I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion, Votes: 0

Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life. Votes: 0

There are millions of animal species but, man is the only animal capable of destroying them all. Votes: 0

In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches. Votes: 0

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become. Votes: 0

No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound. Votes: 0

Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become Votes: 0

You can cut a tree down, and it grows back. Once a species goes, it's gone forever. Votes: 0

It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment. Votes: 0

Crime takes the pulse of a culture. It tells us the truth about us as a species. Votes: 0

I think a few hundred years from now we'll start having the 'posthuman' era of different species. Votes: 0

Every species has come into existence coincident both in space and time with a pre-existing closely allied species. Votes: 0

To talk about the need for perfection in man is to talk about the need for another species. Votes: 0

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are. Votes: 0

The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species. Votes: 0

I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest. Votes: 0

The ability to write and read books is one of the things that transformed us as a species. Votes: 0

Aggressiveness is not the main trouble with the human species, but rather an excess capacity for fanatical devotion. Votes: 0

Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man. Votes: 0

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-sat-isfied man. Votes: 0

We can truly see that consciousness is operating creatively even in biology, even in the evolution of species. Votes: 0

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling. Votes: 0

...our species is one, and each of the individuals who compose it are entitled to equal moral consideration. Votes: 0

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me. Votes: 0

What were several fewer species of animals compared with a hundred-mile advance and another medal on another general? Votes: 0

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities. Votes: 0

Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species. Votes: 0

For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value. Votes: 0

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. Votes: 0

And History will smile to think that this is the species for which Socrates and Jesus Christ died. Votes: 0

The cultivation of compassion is no longer a luxury, but a necessity, if our species is to survive. Votes: 0

The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA. Votes: 0

If a species is diverse, it can survive and prosper. If a species is homogeneous, it is vulnerable. Votes: 0

The extreme self-sacrifice characteristic of group-selected species such as ants and bees can often be found among soldiers. Votes: 0

No rational order of divine intelligence unites species. The natural ties are genealogical along contingent pathways of history. Votes: 0

The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily. Votes: 0

The belief that tomorrow is a different place from today is certainly a unique hallmark of our species. Votes: 0

Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape. Votes: 0

You know, I think there's a good rule of thumb here: Don't take nutritional advice from other species. Votes: 0

We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good. Votes: 0

We're the only species that listens to Michael Bublé when we have sex. That's gotta be wrong. Votes: 0

I think Darwinism as a theory explaining evolution within species is incredibly brilliant - just unbelievably, incredibly brilliant. Votes: 0

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them. Votes: 0

Think what cowards men would be if they had to bear children. Women are altogether a superior species. Votes: 0

Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species. Votes: 0

Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth. Votes: 0

The worship of words is more pernicious than the worship of images. Grammatolatry is the worst species of idolatry. Votes: 0

Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species Votes: 0

a preface is a species of literary luxury, where an author, like a lover, is privileged to be egotistical ... Votes: 0

Religious faith is the one species of human ignorance that will not admit of even the possibility of correction. Votes: 0

I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent. Votes: 0

What other species now require of us is our attention. Otherwise, we are entering a narrative of disappearing intelligences. Votes: 0

A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature. Votes: 0

Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend. Votes: 0

[Bacteria are the] dark matter of the biological world [with 4 million mostly unknown species in a ton of soil]. Votes: 0

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species. Votes: 0

The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations. Votes: 0

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species. Votes: 0

As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes. Votes: 0

We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up. Votes: 0

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species. Votes: 0

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now? Votes: 0

Nothing is more likely to destroy a species or a nation than a determination to survive at all costs Votes: 0

The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it. Votes: 0

Moses - the man of God - was a species of human chameleon - scholar, general, law-giver, leader, etc. Votes: 0

I never liked my own species. On why so many of his comics are about animals, in an interview. Votes: 0

I am passionate about many things but conserving our planet and its species is a high priority of mine. Votes: 0

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species." Votes: 0

I have always found the female of the human species many times more difficult to understand than the male. Votes: 0

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation Votes: 0

Most species do their own evolving, making it up as they go along, which is the way Nature intended. Votes: 0

Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species. Votes: 0

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again. Votes: 0

Meals, in the sense in which we understand this word, began with the second age of the human species. Votes: 0

I would rather obey a fine lion, much stronger than myself, than two hundred rats of my own species. Votes: 0

Half of all species on Earth could disappear by the end of the century because of our collective impact. Votes: 0

Our vanity makes us exaggerate the importance of human life; the individual is nothing; Nature cares only for the species. Votes: 0

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything. Votes: 0

Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species. Votes: 0

It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60). Votes: 0

A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries. Votes: 0

We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability. Votes: 0

Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species. Votes: 0

It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals. Votes: 0

We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive. Votes: 0

Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize? Votes: 0

Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance. Votes: 0

Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism. Votes: 0

A writer is a strange instrument of our species, a harp of sorts, fine-tuned to the dark contradictions of life. Votes: 0

Not one change of species into another is on record ... we cannot prove that a single species has been changed. Votes: 0

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask. Votes: 0

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate. Votes: 0

In fact perhaps the only law in biology is that all flesh is mortal and all species become extinct eventually. Votes: 0

My specific goal is to revolutionize the future of the species. Mathematics is just another way of predicting the future. Votes: 0

Loving the ideal more than the reality is the cause of all the misery the human species creates for itself. Votes: 0

We stand guard over works of art, but species representing the work of aeons are stolen from under our noses Votes: 0

As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers. Votes: 0

Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue. Votes: 0

I suppose that, after the passion of love, water rights have caused more trouble than anything else to the human species. Votes: 0

When you get a little older, you'll see how easy it is to become lured by the female of the species. Votes: 0

In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others Votes: 0

Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species. Votes: 0

We admit as many genera as there are different groups of natural species of which the fructification has the same structure. Votes: 0

As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being. Votes: 0

A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species. Votes: 0

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it. Votes: 0

It is almost as hard for us to sense our own species quality as it is to sense our species smell. Votes: 0

So our narcissism has bared forth an unflattering nakedness that shames our species. But this is humanity. This is our condition. Votes: 0

As Darwin himself was at pains to point out, natural selection is all about differential survival within species, not between them. Votes: 0

There is a species of moral, legal, and social modernism which we condemn, no less decidedly than we condemn theological modernism. Votes: 0

Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. Votes: 0

There are not many things finer in our murderous species than this noble curiosity, this restless and reckless passion to understand. Votes: 0

I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution. Votes: 0

I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion. Votes: 0

The difference between humans and Neanderthals is .004 percent of gene code. That's how big the difference is, one species to another. Votes: 0

I'm not too worried about humanity in the future. I think we've got an innate ability as a species to self-correct. Votes: 0

ADDER, n. A species of snake. So called from its habit of adding funeral outlays to the other expenses of living. Votes: 0

I've always been anti-marriage for men until they become mature. As a species we don't mature until we're in our 60s. Votes: 0

To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage. Votes: 0

Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it Votes: 0

We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own. Votes: 0

It's the next annihilation of vast numbers of species. It is happening now, and we, the human race, are its cause Votes: 0

Every reading is partial, but that does not absolve us from the quest for meaning, which defines us as a species. Votes: 0

The person who is certain, and who claims divine warrant for his certainty, belongs now to the infancy of our species. Votes: 0

You should know as much as you can about the human species if you have a hand in designing human society. Votes: 0

Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species. Votes: 0

But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another. Votes: 0

Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it. Votes: 0

Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species. Votes: 0

U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone. Votes: 0

The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions. Votes: 0

[My work as a photographer is a] mission to document endangered species and landscapes in order to show a world worth saving. Votes: 0

What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next. Votes: 0

As a species, we are forever sticking our finger into the electric socket of the universe to see what will happen next. Votes: 0

It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection. Votes: 0

On a slightly unconnected note, I am sorry to report that babies, as a collective species, are largely oblivious to my charms." Votes: 0

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing. Votes: 0

Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human. Votes: 0

She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species. Votes: 0

But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy. Votes: 0

The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species. Votes: 0

As far as we know, as a species, the only reason we were put on this planet is to help continue life. Votes: 0

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust. Votes: 0

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue. Votes: 0

If god really wanted people to be free of [wicked thoughts], he should have taken more care to invent a different species. Votes: 0

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality. Votes: 0

My case is a species of madness, only that it is a derangement of the Volition, and not of the intellectual faculties. Votes: 0

(Gray) Davis said yesterday that he is going to fight like a Bengal tiger, which I believe is also an endangered species. Votes: 0

Those who lived in peaceful nations had looked the other way as members of their own species starved on their door step. Votes: 0

There is nothing more mysterious than destiny - of a person, of our species, of our planet, or of the universe itself. Votes: 0

Women were the slave class that maintained the species in order to free the other half for the business of the world ... Votes: 0

We cannot tire or give up. We owe it to the present and future generations of all species to rise up and walk! Votes: 0

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy. Votes: 0

It is not in human nature for all men to tread the same path of development, as animals do of a single species. Votes: 0

It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature. Votes: 0

Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities. Votes: 0

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good. Votes: 0

People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today. Votes: 0

Some of the best art occurs when people are oppressed. That's just what we do as a species when something shakes us up. Votes: 0

For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from. Votes: 0

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have~? Votes: 0

Before we sent kids to computer camps and told them they were having a good time, there was imagination among the human species. Votes: 0

there is nothing so easy as to be wise for others; a species of prodigality, by-the-by - for such wisdom is wholly wasted. Votes: 0

I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish. Votes: 0

A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime. Votes: 0

When I hear of the destruction of a species, I feel just as if all the works of some great writer have perished. Votes: 0

Here we are, the most clever species ever to have lived. So how is it we can destroy the only planet we have? Votes: 0

I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it. Votes: 0

I don't like the human race in general. We are the only species who hunt for sport, who kill due to emotional need. Votes: 0

Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one. Votes: 0

Man is the only creature disposed to kill huge numbers of members of his own species, and his instrument is usually the state. Votes: 0

Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend in. Votes: 0

It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it. Votes: 0

Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive. Votes: 0

The human species produces a certain percentage of scum. That is the way in which I have understood the world my whole life Votes: 0

I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found. Votes: 0

The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now. Votes: 0

If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back. Votes: 0

If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place. Votes: 0

There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'. Votes: 0

Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species. Votes: 0

It is a paradox of Life that all species breed past mere replacement. Any paradise of plenty soon fills to become paradise no more. Votes: 0

The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live. Votes: 0

In pain there is as much wisdom as in pleasure: like the latter it is one of the best self preservatives of a species. Votes: 0

Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species. Votes: 0

We are, as a species, addicted to story. Even when the body goes to sleep, the mind stays up all night, telling itself stories. Votes: 0

I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.' Votes: 0

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. Votes: 0

A new species is being born inside each one of us. Eventually, we will all express the perceptions and values of this new species. Votes: 0

Anglers may be divided into almost as many genera and species as the fish they catch, and engage in the sport from as many impulses. Votes: 0

Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow. Votes: 0

Fun has no limits. It is like the human race and face; there is a family likeness among all the species, but they all differ. Votes: 0

Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog goes to sleep. Votes: 0

If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love Votes: 0

We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the form of solar energy. Votes: 0

There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park? Votes: 0

Our wretched species is so made that those who walk on the well-trodden path always throw stones at those who are showing a new road. Votes: 0

I came to the conclusion that bringing Humans to earth with an intact ability to LOVE is essential if we are to survive as a species. Votes: 0

I'm trying to make you think I'm a decent person. Telling you I saw you naked while I was another species does not help my case Votes: 0

Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around the planet by people. Votes: 0

This is a very violent place to live, the Earth, and we're a very violent species. Cain is still killing Abel. We see that every day. Votes: 0

I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species. Votes: 0

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. Votes: 0

If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species. Votes: 0