374 Species Quotes for You to Enjoy

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. George Carlin

Alone Universe Settled Our Say Rather True Very Little Low Then Species

A human being would certainly not grow to be seventy or eighty years old if this longevity had no meaning for the species. The afternoon of human life must also have a significance of its own and cannot be merely a pitiful appendage to life's morning. Carl Jung

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I beg you be persuaded that no one would be more zealous than myself to establish effectual barriers against the horrors of spiritual tyranny, and every species of religious persecution. George Washington

There have to be reasons that you get up in the morning and you want to live. Why do you want to live? What's the point? What inspires you? What do you love about the future? If the future does not include being out there among the stars and being a multi-planet species, I find that incredibly depressing. Elon Musk

Human beings never think for themselves; they find it too uncomfortable. For the most part, members of our species simply repeat what they are told - and become upset if they are exposed to any different view. Michael Crichton

Become Think Too Our Members Find Uncomfortable Never Part Simply Most Repeat Any Human Upset Different Human Beings Themselves View Exposed Beings Different View Species

I am not very proud of being an human being; in fact, I distinctly dislike the species in many ways. I can readily conceive of beings vastly superior in every respect. H. P. Lovecraft

Respect Human Being Superior Every Ways Fact Vastly Conceive Readily Proud Am Very Human Being In Fact Dislike Many Beings Species

My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species. Joni Mitchell

Broken Heart Stupidity Face Species

Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call 'the dark side,' and greed is one of them. If you don't put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control. Michael Moore

You Dark Dark Side Greed Control Side Our Those Out Has-Been Would Dark Place Restrictions Structures Put Come Call Parts Been Forever Gets Human Being Human Beings Place Them Then Certain Beings Species Things Number

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us. E. O. Wilson

Natural Destruction Will Diversity Our Correct Folly Habitats Take Genetic Likely Least Years Loss Forgive Going Process Us Descendants Now Species Millions Millions Of Years

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants. David Attenborough

Plants Animals Other Way Mutual Only Both Environment Between Because Dependency Rhinoceros Which Species Lives Millions Save

Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions. David Suzuki

Sometimes Soil Insects Important Live Birds Increasingly Local Our Wildlife Thousands Indigenous Rely Over Because Climate Years Conditions Native Them Communities Planting Gardens Species Millions Millions Of Years

A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy. George Jean Nathan

Love Man Woman Finds Tenderly He True Feel Himself His May Electrified Company Reserves Whose Species Deepest

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about. Jack Hanna

About Magnificent Absolutely Endangered Endangered Species Snow Represents Really Leopard Species

Slavery existed before the formation of this Union. It derived from the Constitution that recognition which it would not have enjoyed without the confederation. If the States had not united together, there would have been no obligation on adjoining States to regard any species of property unknown to themselves. Jefferson Davis

Property Constitution Together Obligation Before Unknown States Recognition Would Had Without Been Existed Confederation Any Regard Formation Which Themselves Derived Union United Species Enjoyed Slavery

If we lived within our means - by being prudent - the 7 billion people in the world could have everything they needed. Global politics should be moving in that direction. But we think as people and countries, not as a species. Jose Mujica

A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own. Percy Bysshe Shelley

Agriculture changes the landscape more than anything else we do. It alters the composition of species. We don't realize it when we sit down to eat, but that is our most profound engagement with the rest of nature. Michael Pollan

We see that pedantry has never been held in such esteem for the government of the world as in our times, and it offers as many paths of the true intelligible species and objects of infallible and sole truth as there are individual pedants. Giordano Bruno

The newspaper headlines may shout about global warming, extinctions of living species, the devastation of rain forests, and other worldwide catastrophes, but Americans evince a striking complacency when it comes to their everyday environment and the growing calamity that it represents. James Howard Kunstler

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The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay. Martin Luther

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