Species Quotes

There are never victories in conservation. If you want to save a species or a habitat, it's a fight forevermore. You can never turn your back.

In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or popular in the short term.

Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves. They are innocent sufferers in a hell of our making.

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief.

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

If you are not curious, that's when your brain is starting to die. And discovering, I think, that's what separates us from the rest of the other species. It's that we discover and pioneer.

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

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

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

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

The gods that we've made are exactly the gods you'd expect to be made by a species that's about half a chromosome away from being chimpanzee.

The Human is the most insane species

A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his mind and his personal history the rest.

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

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

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

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.

Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.

Gems, in fact, are a species of mineral flowers; they are the blossoms of the dark, hard mine; and what they want in perfume, they make up in durability.

Our downfall as a species is that we are arrogant enough to think that we can control Mother Nature and stupid enough to think it is our job.

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

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

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

Both humans and dogs love to play well into adulthood, and individuals from both species occasionally display evidence of having a conscience.

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

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations.

If your values are not related to the Earth or realistic, you'll believe in things that aren't so, which will hurt you in the long run, and as a species, too.

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

The greatest problem for the human species, the solution of which nature compels him to seek, is that of attaining a civil society which can administer justice universally.

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

The Great Work - the work of ensuring a just, healthy, beautiful, and sustainably life-giving world for future generations of all species.

Grief is a species of idleness.

Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.

We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.

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

what a horrible loutish planet this is. the dominant species consists of sadistic morons, faces bearing the hideous lineaments of spiritual famine swollen with stupid hate. hopeless rubbish.

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

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

If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign that something really serious is going on.

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

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

I think midwifery was developed by people with common sense, people who were close to nature, and people who observed other species of mammals and saw that there were lessons there to be learned.

Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.

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

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.

The history of human use of plants, mushrooms, and animals for their psychedelic effects is far older than written history, and probably predates the appearance of the modern human species.

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

Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality.

The single simplest reason why human space flight is necessary is this, stated as plainly as possible: keeping all your breeding pairs in one place is a retarded way to run a species.