Species Quotes

One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.

A population may be too crowded, though all be amply supplied with food and raiment. It is not good for a man to be kept perforce at all times in the presence of his species.

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

I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want these particular species to disappear.

We are a species addicted to a stories.

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

We aren’t exactly emptying the oceans; it’s more like clear-cutting a forest with thousands of species to create massive fields with one type of soybean.

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

I have often wondered that learning is not thought a proper ingredient in the education of a woman of quality or fortune. Since they have the same improvable minds as the male part of their species.

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

I think if you stand me up next to Rob Lowe, it's like we represent two different species.

We are the species that clamors to be lied to.

My sister and I may have been crafted of the same genetic clay, baked in the same uterine kiln, but we were disparate species, doomed never to love each other except blindly.

The changes in the Catholic Church since Vatican II can certainly be scanned in terms of this long retreat from the sacred which has followed the inception of consciousness into the human species.

When the labourer co-operates systematically with others, he strips off the fetters of his individuality, and develops the capabilities of his species.

Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.

Our saving grace! Um, as a species [humans] we can be pretty warm and fuzzy. But maybe for this, it's the adaptability, or the heart and soul. We're not all that bad. I don't really know!

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

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

The preparation for conception to me is one of the most important things, if we are we interested in the general progress of our species.

We are members of a strange species that devotes its energies to climbing the ladder of success in order to make money to buy things we don't like.

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

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

Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.

It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in the males of our species than in the females.

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

Adolescents are the bearers of cultural renewal, those cycles of generation and regeneration that link our limited individual destinies with the destiny of the species.

My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our survival as a species.

Global warming threatens the survival of our species.

Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.

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

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.

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

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

My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.

All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.

Nonviolence is the law of our species as violence is the law of the brute.

Hatred is the spiritual malignancy of our species, and like any other form of cancer, does its most terrible work not outwardly, but from within us.

We are the only species systematically destroying its own habitat.

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

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

What I really do is take real plums and put them in an imaginary cake. If you're interested in the cake, you get rather annoyed with people saying what species the real plum was.

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

Maybe the honorable thing for our species to do is deny our programming, stop reproducing, walk hand in hand into extinction, one last midnight, brothers and sisters opting out of a raw deal.

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

We are one of only three species on our planet that can claim to be self-aware, yet self-delusion may be a more significant characteristic of our kind.

For great many species today, fitness means the ability to get along in a world in which humankind has become the most powerful evolutionary force.

One of the most irresponsible things we can do is eat in ignorance, without any awareness of what our eating is doing to the world or to other species.

Since humans are by nature tribal, the overall goal is to expand the concept of the tribe to include ALL members of the species, in a global free society.

Codex Orféo is something you won't see coming at you, but it does. It's all about kindness to other species, and to one another. If we can work that out, the world will take care of herself.