Quotes About Species

There's an old saying in the space community: 'If God wanted us to be a spacefaring species, he would have given us a moon'.

God decided to create a species with whom he could have fellowship. Who are we to say that evolution was a dumb way to do it? It was an incredibly elegant way to do it.

We're under some gross misconception that we're a good species, going somewhere important, and that at the last minute we'll correct our errors and God will smile on us. It's delusion.

My good mood felt like an endangered species.

To suggest social action for the public good to the city London is like discussing The Origin of Species to a Bishop sixty years ago.

Laughter was like a fresh breeze - it cleaned its way through the body making everything feel good. Did other species have such a simple healer?

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.

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

The point of sloths is to bring a sense of wonder, magic, and happiness to all other species. Did you know that every other animal's favorite animal is the sloth?

If happiness were the means to measure the evolutionary level of a species, I bet Darwin would've changed his mind and places humans at the very bottom.

I do not regard flesh-food as necessary for us at any stage and under any clime in which it is possible for human beings ordinarily to live, I hold flesh-food to be unsuited to our species.

Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

We share this planet, our home, with millions of species. Justice and sustainability both demand that we do not use more resources than we need.

Hope is itself a species of happiness and perhaps the chief happiness which this world affords.

In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.

The necessities of our condition require a thousand offices of tenderness, which mere regard for the species will never dictate.

The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.

Another werewolf thing. Like most animals, we spent a large part of our lives engaged in the three Fs of basic survival. Feeding, fighting and... reproduction.

You know, quite a few species of fish require two or more sexual partners.

The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species.

Progress means movement in a desired direction, and we do not all desire the same things for our species.

Man is descended from a hairy, tailed quadruped, probably arboreal in its habits.