Species Quotes

I agree, along with Carl Sagan, that we should eventually become a two planet species. Life is too precious to place on a single planet.

I feel like sometimes we have to be a little less inclusive and tolerant if other people's opinions could lead to the destruction of our species.

We hope that as a species we're capable of dealing with environmental catastrophe before it actually does collectively kill most of us.

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

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

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'.

When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.

the description of lust was simple: two people learn they're compatible , attraction grows, and the ancient instinct to preserve the species kicks in.

ONE THING I AM NEVER GOING TO DO WHEN I GROW UP Is fall in love, drop out of college, learn to subsist on water and air, have a species named after me, and ruin my life.

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

History, which interprets the past to understand the present and confront the future is the least rewarding discipline for a dying species.

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

At some time in their careers, most good historians itch to write a history of the world, endeavor to discover what makes humanity the most destructive and creative of species.

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

I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems - climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage - we surely do. But ultimately we knock them down.

Males are the most incomprehensible species.

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

For me the protection of Planet Earth, the survival of all species and the sustainability of our ecosystems is more than a mission. It is my religion and my dharma.

The principle of avoiding the unnecessary expenditure of energy has enabled the species to survive in a world full of stimuli; but it prevents the survival of the aristocracy.

Among environmentalists sharing two or three beers, the notion is quite common that if only some calamity could wipe out the entire human race, other species might once again have a chance.

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

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

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

A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.

An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.

Gratitude is a species of justice.

The business of a poet is to examine not the individual but the species; to remark general properties and large appearances.

Is our species crazy? Plenty of evidence.

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

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

I just think, as a species, what we [people] enjoy most is creation and creativity, and telling stories is an extension of expressing all the thoughts and ideas that we have inside of ourselves.

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

Kat laughed. 'Who wants to live forever?' Kish put his hand up. 'For the record, I do.' Sin scowled at him. 'Then why do you irritate me so often?' Suicidal tendencies are inherent in my species?

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

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

As a species we're fundamentally insane.

Laughter was like a fresh breeze - it cleaned its way through the body making everything feel good. Did other species have such a simple healer?

We are all lone souls. It pays to know humility, lest the delusion of control, of mastery, overwhelms. And, indeed, we seem a species prone to that delusion, again and ever again." ~Fiddler, pg. 558

Established species are evolving so slowly that major transitions between genera and higher taxa must be occurring within small rapidly evolving populations that leave NO LEGIBLE FOSSIL RECORD.

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

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

I think the world is growing more psychedelic every day. I'm completely hopeful. . . . This is how it should be. This is what it's like when a species prepares to depart for hyperspace.

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

The students were staring at her in the manner of those who have heard of the species 'female' but have never expected to get this close to one.

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

I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.

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.

Ambrose Phillips . . . who had the honor of bringing into fashion a species of composition which has been called, after his name, Namby Pamby.

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.

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