375 Species Quotes for You to Enjoy

Aside from bringing back extinct species, reanimation could help living ones by restoring lost genetic diversity. The Tasmanian devil (aka Sarcophilus harrisii) is so inbred at this point that most species members can exchange tumor cells without rejection. George M. Church

Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes. George Mason

A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally. George Mercer Dawson

So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet. Greg Graffin

Destruction Simple Free Habitat Other License Degrade Somehow Given Over Principle Been Pollution Much Planet Based Species

There are so many ways to characterize evolutionary success. If one criterion is the number of millions of years that the species persists, we're still just infants. We're way too young of a species to tell if we were a creative fluke or if we have any staying power. Greg Graffin

Success Creative Power Young Too Fluke Way Ways Characterize Criterion Evolutionary Tell Staying Staying Power Still Were Years Infants Persists Any Just Many Species Millions Number Millions Of Years

The stakes in my books tend to be kind of ridiculously high. In 'Kid vs. Squid,' the question is whether or not the California coast will be subsumed by the ocean in favor of the creation of a new Atlantis. In 'The Boy at the End of the World,' what's at stake is the survival of the human species. Greg van Eekhout

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Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. H. G. Wells

Beginning Individuals Since Accumulate Experiments Successful Species Biologically

Scientists have always thought that because mammoths roamed such a huge territory - from Western Europe to Central North America - that North American woolly mammoths were a sideshow of no particular significance to the evolution of the species. Hendrik Poinar

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings. Henry Mayhew

Women Humiliation Lost Few Sense Those Degraded About Properly Park Shame Parks Most Sake Any Paths Wander So-Called After Acquiring Who Creatures Species Utterly Consent

I think, to a great degree, we humans still divide ourselves into two species, even though we are monotypic. There are males and females. We see them as different and not equal. Henry Rollins

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There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species. Hugh Lofting

Distinct Classify Tendency Almost Always Been Children Species

Human activity is having a major impact on the planet. We consume or have diverted a large proportion of the productivity of the land and oceans. Our hunger for land crowds out fellow species. Our waste products pollute the waters, warm the atmosphere and acidify the oceans. Ian Goldin

Waters Our Hunger Out Impact Atmosphere Having Diverted Crowds Proportion Consume Major Major Impact Fellow Oceans Human Human Activity Warm Land Planet Productivity Products Large Activity Waste Species

I suppose that few people ever forget the first sight of a palm-tree of any species. I vividly remember seeing one for the first time at Malaga, but the coco-palm groves of the Pacific have a strangeness and witchery of their own. Isabella Bird

Time People Remember First Few Own Sight Seeing Vividly Suppose First Time Forget Few People Any Pacific Strangeness Species Ever

I would love to be a field biologist. I would love to do what Jane Goodall did, just totally immerse myself in the life of one specific species for years and study every aspect of its behavior until little by little, all of these patterns become clear. That would be great, but I don't know if I have it left in me. Isabella Rossellini

Life Love Myself Great Me Behavior Become Field Every Immerse Would Would-Be Totally Clear Study Know Until Years Left Did Just Jane Patterns Little Aspect Species Specific Biologist

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species. J. Philippe Rushton

Variety Term Race Species

Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in. James Cromwell

Celebrate Women Oppression World Men Live Other Environment Until Operate Learn Feminine Stop Children Anyone Themselves Aspect Chooses Species

As a species, we would not have survived without humor. Jane Hamilton

Humor Would Without Survived Species

Around the world today we're seeing an incredible transformation, from what I would call a biocidal species, one that - whether we intentionally or unintentionally - have designed our systems to kill life, a lot of the time. Jane Poynter

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I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species. Jane Smiley

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Taking care of our families isn't just about putting food on the table today. It's about ensuring that our children and grandchildren will have a habitable world where they can get to know various species of sea turtles. Jane Velez-Mitchell

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