374 Species Quotes for You to Enjoy

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species. Arianna Huffington

Exaggeration Say Longer Endangered Endangered Species American Species

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families. Asa Gray

Best Great Cause Range Must See Genera Small Accept Reduced Families Same May Explaining Large Many Species Extinction

Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling. Barry Ritholtz

Strength Better Tools Simply Forecasting Narrative Storytelling Much Species

With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species must travel. And with a booming world population that will hit 9.1 billion in 2050, large-scale space travel may become a necessity. Ben Parr

Travel World Space Will Become Stars Every Our Earth Booming Must Hit May Space Travel Place Land Next Inch Billion Satellites Population Now Large-Scale Species Necessity

'Humanity' is a name not merely for a species but also for a quality. Bernard Williams

Quality Humanity Merely Name Also Species

If you look at landscape in historical terms, you realize that most of the time we have been on Earth as a species, what has fallen on our retina is landscape, not images of buildings and cars and street lights. Bill Viola

Time You Car Our Earth Lights Look Most Terms Buildings Fallen Been Historical Realize Landscape Species Street Images

I remember the day we found the gene for the inter-species signaling molecule like it was yesterday. We got the gene, and we plugged it into a database. And we immediately saw that this gene was in an amazing number of species of bacteria. It was a huge moment of realization. Bonnie Bassler

Day Remember Amazing Yesterday Saw Immediately Bacteria Gene Database Like Got Huge Realization Molecule Moment Found Species Number

Original movies of any size are an endangered species. Brad Bird

Endangered Endangered Species Any Size Movies Original Species

Think about it for a brief moment. Suspend disbelief. Wind the clock forward 100 years. Do you think, as a species, we will still be struggling with the things that vex us today? Will we still be arguing about the same stuff? We will still be eating Cocoa Puffs? We are at the end of the beginning. Brad Feld

Today You Will Wind Beginning Think Eating About Struggling Arguing Stuff Disbelief Still Years Clock End Same Suspend Same Stuff Us Moment Forward Brief Brief Moment Species Things

The Bahamas has mangrove nurseries, coral reefs, shallow sea grass beds, and deep oceanic trenches - all perfect ecosystems for sharks. Photographing multiple shark species in exquisite water was the assignment I had dreamed about from the start. Brian Skerry

Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific Northwest. Bruce Babbitt

Life Think Back Those Restoring Rivers Taking Well Wolves Yellowstone Salmon Endangered Endangered Species Endangered Species Act Northwest Pacific Breathing Act Species

We're confronted with great darkness as a species right now as spiritual creatures on this planet. I don't think it's hopeless, and I don't want 'You've Never Seen Everything' to make people feel hopeless. But I think we've got to call a spade a spade. Bruce Cockburn

To many people, 'biodiversity' is almost synonymous with the word 'nature,' and 'nature' brings to mind steamy forests and the big creatures that dwell there. Fair enough. But biodiversity is much more than that, for it encompasses not only the diversity of species, but also the diversity within species. Cary Fowler

Nature People Word Mind Diversity Big Enough Synonymous More Only Almost Fair Also Within Forests Than Dwell Much Many Creatures Species Biodiversity Brings

We keep making the same mistakes as a species, and you can usually draw it back to the fact that we are all terrified of dying. We also all think that we are going to escape it until we get to 65! Cate Blanchett

You Mistakes Think Back Draw Fact Until Also Terrified Making Escape Get Same Same Mistakes Going Dying Keep Species

Safeguarding our common home is not only essential to protecting endangered species and preserving old-growth forests, it is also paramount to ending poverty, fighting injustice, and protecting the long-term survival of humankind and of our faith. Catherine Cortez-Masto

Faith Home Injustice Survival Ending Poverty Fighting Preserving Our Paramount Only Long-Term Also Protecting Safeguarding Forests Endangered Endangered Species Essential Common Species Humankind

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. Charles Jules Henry Nicole

Today Animals First Typhus Those Easily Had Attempts Supply Smaller Failed Laboratory Predecessors Which Transmit Reasons Including Species Monkeys

It has long been a fact familiar to geologists, that, both on the east and west coasts of the central part of Scotland, there are lines of raised beaches, containing marine shells of the same species as those now inhabiting the neighbouring sea. Charles Lyell

My premise is that there's something hardwired into our DNA, that we as a species came and evolved from caves and clans and tribes, and therefore, we as a species care more about the things that are local to us than we care about the things that are 'over there' from us. Chris Milk

Care Local Our Tribes Evolved About Something More Over Came Caves Than Us Premise Therefore Species Things Hardwired

I like reading novels because it provides insight into human behavior. I am really interested in feelings and think they are what define us as a species. When you really get it right in acting, it's an act of empathy. You feel less distant from others, and that is really exciting. Claire Danes

You Behavior Feelings Reading Think Others Distant Define Insight Exciting Empathy Feel Like Because Am Provides Get Human Human Behavior Interested Us Really Act Acting Less Novels Species Right

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. Clifford D. Simak

Time Me Space Thought Would Seem Point Another Dominating Intelligent Matured Achieved Where Race Capability Deep Deep Space Species By The Time

Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to dress each group in different styles. Colleen Atwood

Class Group Define Definite Besides Dress Attempt Had Styles Trying Different Much Across Body Different Styles Each Species Suit

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