Species Quotes
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The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.
— Jules Renard
God is dead, but considering the state the species man is in, there will perhaps be caves, for ages yet, in which his shadow will be shown.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
We must marry, have children, reproduce the species.
— Paulo Coelho
Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years.
— Jeff McNeely
We have stopped natural selection from purifying the species because deep in our heart of hearts, we are all terrified that we won't make the cut.
— Moxie Mezcal
Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species.
— Alfred Marshall
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.
— Will Carling
By ignoring our health and consuming unhealthy products, we are unknowingly contributing to the genetic mutation of the human species.
— Joseph P. Kauffman
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species
— Garrett Hardin
No, she didn't want to find a cure for cancer or make the world a better place for an endangered owl species. She just wanted to be pretty.
— Devan Sipher
The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.
— Charles Lamb
Different viral species contain nucleic acids that differ not only in length and nucleotide sequence but in many unexpected ways as well.
— Alfred Hershey
Choice is a signature of our species.
— Diane Ackerman
It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.
— David Attenborough
Life was not a reversible commodity. Things passed away, never to return: species, hopes, years.
— Clive Barker
This was what we did as a species, after all: we built ingenious devices, and we destroyed things.
— Mark O'Connell
This world is not conclusion.
A species stands beyond -
Invisible, as Music -
But positive as Sound — Emily Dickinson
A species stands beyond -
Invisible, as Music -
But positive as Sound — Emily Dickinson
There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?
— Hendrik Poinar
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.
— Thomas Chandler Haliburton
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.
— Greg Peterson
For the person and for the species love is the form of behavior having the highest survival value.
— Ashley Montagu
We humans, as a species, are pretty fucked up. It's
— Linnea May
Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.
— Thomas Paine
It is the preservation of the species, not of individuals, which appears to be the design of Deity throughout the whole of nature.
— Mary Wollstonecraft
A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days,
a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30,
a man at 100, and some species of
tortoises not until 150 years. — Leonard Hayflick
a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30,
a man at 100, and some species of
tortoises not until 150 years. — Leonard Hayflick
How beastly the bourgeois is
especially the male of the species — D.H. Lawrence
especially the male of the species — D.H. Lawrence
I am passionate about many things but conserving our planet and its species is a high priority of mine.
— Richard Branson
The social relations which are the basis of the reproduction of the species are founded upon the continuous union of parents in marriage.
— Maria Montessori
Agassiz, when I saw him last, had read but a part of Origin of Species. He says it is POOR-VERY POOR!!. The fact is, he is very much annoyed by it.
— Asa Gray
I often laugh and say I should go down to the Department of the Interior and register as an endangered species. I'm a gay man over 60 and I'm alive.
— David Mixner
Love is a very ancient force, which served its purpose in its day but no longer is essential for the survival of the species.
— Frank Herbert
Without argument the species would parish.
— Gerry Spence
I am convinced that the air we normally breathe is a kind of water, and men and women are a species of fish.
— D.H. Lawrence
The human species and the global economy may well keep growing, but many more individuals may live in hunger and want.
— Yuval Noah Harari
As a species, the look of another of our species into our eyes has a great power. It can mean a lot of different things: aggression, love.
— Chris Milk
I might be an endangered species.
— Waylon Jennings
Beer is sacred business, a mood-altering food substance that may have preserved the human species. To drink beer is to be human.
— Alan D. Eames
Raising of money may indeed change the species, but with so much loss as the foreign pieces were raised unto, above their intrinsick value.
— William Petty
The living is a species of the dead; and not a very attractive one.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
His subject is the "Origin of Species," & not the origin of Organization; & it seems a needless mischief to have opened the latter speculation at all.
— Harriet Martineau
A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.
— Jeffrey Kluger
Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.
— Friedrich Nietzsche
The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
— J.M. Coetzee
How do we love all the children of all species for all time?
— William McDonough
I think there is no culture in which music is not very important and central. That's why I think of us as a sort of musical species.
— Oliver Sacks
Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.
— Marcel Proust
Wonderful theory, wrong species. (On Marxism, which he considered more suited to ants than to humans.
— E. O. Wilson
A cross between two species. Doomed with the thirst of the undead for human blood, yet tormented by the gargoyle drive to protect them.
— Lisa Carlisle
As long as I can remember, I've always had pets. Something about the connection you share with this entirely different species just blows my mind.
— Reid Scott
Biologists will teach us that the survival of the species depends on cooperation, not competition.
— Robert Holden
I am proud to be part of a species where a subset of its members willingly put their lives at risk to push the boundaries of our existence.
— Neil DeGrasse Tyson
A just security to property is not afforded by that government, under which unequal taxes oppress one species of property and reward another species.
— James Madison
Love could not induce us to take on the burden of propagating the species without promising us the greatest happiness we could imagine.
— Alain De Botton
Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.
— Robert T. Bakker
Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.
— Christopher Cokinos
If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.
— Lascelles Abercrombie
I never liked my own species.
— Gary Larson
The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species.
— Adolf Hitler
It is almost as hard for us to sense our own species quality as it is to sense our species smell.
— Lois Crisler
We are merely one of a multitude of species upon which nature indiscriminately exerts its force. Nature has a master agenda we can only dimly know.
— Camille Paglia
Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.
— C.S. Lewis
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.
— Michael Pollan
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.
— Erwin Schrodinger
Isn't that weird?" I said. "All the different types of sentient species in the universe, and we're all different, but we all drink coffee.
— John Scalzi
The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but one weedy species.
— Elizabeth Kolbert
The sexes in each species of being ... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.
— Antoinette Brown Blackwell
Some day we'll move into space and start ensuring the survival of our species beyond Earth, whether it happens in a hundred years or a thousand.
— Neil Turok
For me to dominate the Congress in spite of these fundamental differences is almost a species of violence which I must refrain from.
— Mahatma Gandhi
narrative is the principal way in which our species organizes its understanding of time.
— H. Porter Abbott
Far more than any other power, imagination is what sets human beings apart from every other species on earth.
— Ken Robinson
Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.
— Salman Rushdie
One of the extraordinary adaptive powers of our species is its ability to transmute a stray encounter into a first chapter.
— Joe Hill
Only species in nature that doesn't commit adultery and in which there seems to be one hundred percent monogamy is a flatworm, Diplozoon paradoxum.
— Paulo Coelho
The imagination is a species of knowledge, knowledge that can take the form of discovery.
— Cynthia Ozick
As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.
— Mariella Frostrup
We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.
— Antonio Damasio
Only one kind of species of animals bites the hand that feeds them - mankind.
— Fakeer Ishavardas
Facing one of my own species terrified me far more than fighting an army of blood spitting bugs.
— Pam Godwin
The human species' foremost task and unshakable duty is survival.
— Carlos J. Cortes
Hitherto man had to live with the idea of death as an individual; from now onward mankind will have to live with the idea of its death as a species.
— Arthur Koestler
Every creative act, however small, enriches our species and the world around us. To find and nurture talent, is to be truly wealthy.
— Stewart Stafford
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.
— Richard Leakey