Species Quotes
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.
If humanity does not evolve spiritually - each one of us and collectively - our species won't make it. So following that back to each individual - every day you are faced with choices.
So many things tear us apart from each other. That's the hardest thing, to fit with all the hatred and pain we're embroiled in. I mean, we're a very violent species, physically and emotionally.
Our own species evolved under the influence of group selection, as Darwin emphasized when he discussed the evolution of altruism.
Before we sent kids to computer camps and told them they were having a good time, there was imagination among the human species.
God decided to create a species with whom he could have fellowship. Who are we to say that evolution was a dumb way to do it? It was an incredibly elegant way to do it.
Friendship is only a reciprocal conciliation of interests, and an exchange of good offices; it is a species of commerce out of which self-love always expects to gain something.
Outstanding examples of genius - a Mozart, a Shakespeare, or a Carl Friedrich Gauss - are markers on the path along which our species appears destined to tread.
The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.
Truth is the kind of error without which a certain species of life could not live. The value for life is ultimately decisive.
It would be doing cunning too much honor to call it an inferior species of true discernment.
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species
The only event in the history of our species that compares with this one is Genesis. And this is a new kind of Genesis, the Genesis of our species into conscious awareness.
A new species is being born inside each one of us. Eventually, we will all express the perceptions and values of this new species.
Man is perhaps half mind and half matter in the same way as the polyp is half plant and half animal. The strangest creatures are always found on the border lines of species.
I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion.
Because humans, in effect, created dogs through domestication, the canine mind reflects back to us how we see ourselves through the eyes, ears, and noses of another species.
deception and 'con games' are a way of life in all species and throughout nature. Organisms that do not improve their ability to deceive - and to detect deception - are less apt to survive.
His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.
The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations.
When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.
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?
I think, to a great degree, we humans still divide ourselves into two species, even though we are monotypic. There are males and females. We see them as different and not equal.
Man's condition is horrible because, no matter what form his happiness may take, it arises from some species of ignorance.
When she was pregnant with Teddy, she feared that she’d give birth to a child who disliked reading. It would be like giving birth to a foreign species.
Don't assume that a species is intelligent because it produces intelligent individuals.
Animals form an inalienable fragment of nature, and if we hasten the disappearance of even one species, we diminish our world and our place in it.
If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders.
When I began in 1960, individuality wasn't an accepted thing to look for; it was about species-specific behaviour. But animal behaviour is not hard science. There's room for intuition.
We have repeatedly demonstrated our species's bottomless ability to lower our standards to make information technology look good.
(Gray) Davis said yesterday that he is going to fight like a Bengal tiger, which I believe is also an endangered species.
Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.
Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of human species, as well as the earth species for that matter.
A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.
no more pep talks about believing in toads," Liza said. "Don't they turn into princeses when you kiss them?" Bonnie said. "Thats frogs," Liza Said. "Entirely different species.
Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.
There are 7 million species of animals on the planet and we’re the only ones of all of them who have walked away from our wild diet and created a new menu.
Many species of wit are quite mechanical; these are the favorites of witlings, whose fame in words scarce outlives the remembrance of their funeral ceremonies.
As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.
It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.
In the beauty and grandeur of individual trees, and in number and variety of species, the Sierra forests surpass all others
A forest of all manner of trees is poor, if not disagreeable, in effect; a mass of one species of tree is sublime.