Species Quotes

Aristocracy has a tendency to degenerate the human species.

Nature is a big influence on my work. That's where the cosmic element comes in, an awareness of the relevance of what we do as a species, why we do it, and its implications.

I've had a love of animals from birth. I love getting to know other species. We should all be aware that there is not one thing we can give a wild animal in captivity that they need.

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

But what a little I can get down into my pen of what is so vivid to my eyes, and not only to my eyes; also to some nervous fibre, or fanlike membrane in my species.

Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.

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

For the first time in human history the psychology that is a prerequisite for intimacy has become the psychology that is a prerequisite for species survival.

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

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

In them was not the savage blankness of the reptile species. Instead there was something far worse - burning, unquenchable rage mixed with the self-mocking irony of great intelligence.

I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.

No conclusion is more fully established, than the important fact of the total absence of any vestiges of the human species throughout the entire series of geological formations.

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

If global warming is such a bad thing, then why is it taking out all of mankind's competitors? It just seems to me that the less species are out there, killing all our Caribou, the better.

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

The more a species is rare the more we like and protect it... So what about humans?

Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence

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

As a species, wise, harmonious progress is our mission.

Λαθρανθρωπία = το να συν~κατα~λέγεται λαθραῖα ἒνα ἂτομο/α, στο εἲδος των ἀνθρῶπων.~ Lathranthropia = the smuggled inclusion of a person or persons within the Human species. neology by Ale3ia

We human beings regard ourselves as (or compare ourselves to) animals only when it suits us.

Darkness is always afraid of the positive thoughts, because they are also a species of light!

When it comes to society and human consciousness, Darwinism still exists in its primal message.

Music is the eternal language of love for every living species.

Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning of life. This simple evolutionary fact itself implies the gravitas of human life.

I have spent hours and hours watching elephants, and to come to understand what emotional creatures they are...it's not just a species facing extinction, it's massive individual suffering.

This was what we did as a species, after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things.

The human beings must be mentally immensely strong, during the encounter with the true malevolence in others, because on it's own it doesn't belong to their species.

Most of the time, it felt like my father and I were completely different species. Possibly literally, depending on the day and whether or not I actually qualified as human at the time.

Sentiments that glorify humanity know no racial distinction.

Call up the ever-pure, the effulgent and the ever-radiant character of true humanism in yourself and in others, and no racism shall have the power to thrive in such society even for a few seconds.

It is character that should be the sole measure of judgement in the society of thinking humanity, and nothing short of that would do.

In the biological sense, race does not exist.

We've got this weird dysgenic situation where we're basically just paying idiots to breed and taxing intelligent people to stay away from each other with anything remotely resembling fertility.

If origin defines race, then we are all Africans – we are all black.

Astronomy defined our home as a small planet tucked away in one corner of an average galaxy among million

To a good approximation, all species are insects.

I expect to think that I would rather be author of your book [The Origin of Species] than of any other on Nat. Hist. Science.[Letter to Charles Darwin 12 Dec 1859]

There is no reason to assume our species will survive itself.

Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.

Dams also tend to be built in remote areas which are the last refuge for species that have been displaced by development in other regions.

The difference between human and other species is, they eat each other when they have nothing to eat, but we eat each other while having everything.

We humans kill and murder every species and still we claim to be the peace lovers.

Never ever have any doubt on yourself. You are the priceless species in this world.Don't undermine yourself by comparing with others. You are a victor!!!

Dachux: It’s not like in the old days where you could kill a hogre or two, and nobody asked questions.

You will stay with me. You will sleep here at my side and you will touch me. I am depressed but not when you stroke my chest.

Advanced weaponry, victories in battle and space travel do not an advanced species or civilization make.

I turn back to the Archers, who don’t look like the same species as us. Do they even sweat, these people?