Species Quotes
We took special pride in the fact that climbing rocks and icefalls had no economic value in society...We were like a wild species living in the edges of an ecosystem - adaptable, resilient and tough.
I love the idea of species fluidity, I guess, the sense of the maiden inherent in the swan or seal, the youth inherent in the bear or deer. After all, human beings are animals.
I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service's top priority under ESA.
How could intelligent beings seek to control a few unwanted species by a method that contaminated the entire environment and brought the threat of disease and death even to their own kind?
It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this planet, with a life expectancy of only eighteen years.
As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.
It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.
Primitives of our own species, even today are historically shallow in their knowledge of the past. Only the poet who writes speaks his message across the millennia to other hearts.
We humans, one species of animal amongst millions, have now become the de facto guardians of the planet's climate stability.
The Englishman wants to be recognized as a gentleman, or as some other suitable species of human being; the American wants to be considered a good guy.
Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.
If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love
In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.
An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand.
As long as nuclear weapons exist, the chances of survival of the human species are quite slight.
The "Otherizing" of women is the oldest oppression known to our species, and it's the model, the template, for all other oppressions.
My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because of their attitude on climate change.
A husband only worries about a particular Other Man; a wife distrusts her whole species.
We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five million years.
Mere chance ... alone would never account for so habitual and large an amount of difference as that between varieties of the same species.
The reason humans experience so much more stress than other species isn't just because we think more, but also because we think differently.
I'm getting the impression that women, in any form, scare you." He shrugged. "They're the more violent species. And unpredictable. I'd rather take on a wild boar. You can't shoot women.
Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.
For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.
If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.
The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.
As species are exterminated by shifting climate zones, ecosystems can collapse, destroying more species.
My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc.
Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.
Babies and young children are like the research and development division of the human species, and we grown-ups are production and marketing.
Man's most human characteristic is not his ability to learn, which he shares with many other species, but his ability to teach and store what others have developed and taught him.
I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species. We err in copying the lower animal world if we are superior to it.
The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates it to the individual. Procreation, equilibrium.
Species evolve to meet the environment. An intelligent species changes the environment to suit itself. As soon as a species becomes intelligent, it should stop evolving.
I firmly believe that mathematics does not exist outside of humans. It is something we, as a species, invent.
I am a big believer of what Darwin discovered in the Galapagos, proving that the species most responsive to change will survive over apparently stronger or more intelligent competitors.
I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution.
Every day we, as a species, do so much to destroy Creation's ability to give us life. But that Creation continues to do everything in its power to give us life anyway. And that's true love.
The oldest continuously operated aquarium in the country features 630 species and more than 8,000 animals. The walruses are especially popular.
The truth is that we're at a critical juncture in the history of our species and if we don't act soon, we could inhabit a world we don't recognize anymore.
The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species.
My first attempts to transmit typhus to laboratory animals, including the smaller species of monkeys, had failed, as had those of my predecessors, for reasons which I can easily supply today
I'm not too worried about humanity in the future. I think we've got an innate ability as a species to self-correct.
Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.