Quotes About Species

Quain soleva ripetere che i lettori sono una specie ormai estinta. Non v'é europeo - ragiovana, - che non sia uno scrittore, in potenza o in atto. Affermava anche che, tra le diverse felicitá che puó procurare la letteratura, la piú alta é l'invenzione.

Quain solía argumentar que los lectores eran una especie ya extinta.

In an anthropological respect, let me reiterate, a human being is an aesthetic creature before he is an ethical one. Therefore, it is not that art, particularly literature, is a by-product of our species' development, but just the reverse. If what distinguishes us from other members of the animal kingdom is speech, then literature – and poetry in particular, being the highest form of locution – is, to put it bluntly, the goal of our species.

His administration's negotiations with Great Britain (on behalf of Canada) resulted in the Migratory Bird Treaty Act, which protected hundreds of species at a moment when commercial interests threatened to destroy them. In environmental matters, Wilson's guiding principle was to preserve as much as possible while serving as many as possible.

You see refugees as the problem. They aren't. They are a symptom. You see them in our fields as weeds, invasive species, but you never ask, what is a weed, but a flower in the wrong garden? That is the real problem with Lebanon, and the whole Middle East, we are all flowers in the wrong garden. You English should understand this; this is the garden you planted.

In my experience, you mon-keigh make a great many claims when it comes to your own prowess, awarding yourselves title after title, your psyches awash with the hope that such posturing will intimidate your foes." "Undeniably true, though that seems harsh criticism from a species that attaches poetic nonsense like" The Storm of Silence" and "The Cry of the Wind" to its demigods, no?

Man uses his intelligence less in the care of his own species than he does in his care of anything else he owns or governs.

Still, how the great middle ticker marched on, and from all its four chambers to all its forgiveness, unlocked the sternum's door, reversed and reshaped until it was a new bright carnal species, more accustomed to grief, and ecstatic at the sight of you.

All life is set for extinction over a long enough timescale; more than 97 percent of species that have ever existed are already gone.

from a time when there were at least four human species on Earth right up to the kings of Europe into the eighteenth century.

But we don't have more protein-coding genes than a chimpanzee. In fact, we have fewer genes than a roundworm. Or a banana.

The Neanderthals were a proto-species, an embryonic light that flickered in evolutionary time, but was not strong enough to stand across epochs.

There are maybe 9,000 bird species living today, which is not quite double the number of mammal species.

The mammals—hairy creatures that produce milk to nurture their young—are a small group of organisms on Earth, with only around 6,000 types known, one-fifth of which are different styles of bat.

scientific research, one that underwrites every single aspect of the life sciences. "Nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution

Nineteen teeth from twelve sixth-century plague pits in Aschheim near Munich provided the source of the Code of Justinian. In among the ancient human DNA are the remnants of other species that loiter around our bodies. A 2013 study ground out DNA from those teeth and found without doubt the same Yersinia pestis we see today. This had settled a long running debate about whether that great plague was in fact bubonic.

males and females can be made. In the second broad category of being a sexual organism are the species that have dozens of sexes, possibly thousands.

Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

I dream of a state of affairs in which every man would know that he lives and dies for the preservation of the species.

The ultimate and most profound reason for the German decline is the fact that the racial problem was ignored, and that its importance in the historical development of nations wasn't grasped. Events that take place in the life of nations are not due to chance, but are the natural results of the effort to conserve and multiply the species and the race--even if people aren't conscious of the inner motives of their conduct.

A]s soon as man is called upon to struggle for purely material causes, he'll avoid death as best he can; clearly, death and the enjoyment of the material rewards are quite incompatible. The frailest woman will become a heroine when the life of her own child is at stake. And only the will to save the species and the hearth--or the state that protects them--has, in all ages, compelled men to face the weapons of their enemies.

A state has never arisen from peaceful economic means, but always from the instinct to maintain the species--whether this instinct manifest itself in the heroic sphere, or in that of cunning craftiness. In the first case, we have the Aryan states, based on the principles of work and culture. In the second case, we have the Jewish parasitic colonies.

Lo Stato non è un'associazione di contraenti economici, in uno spazio vitale determinato per perseguire i propri scopi economici ma è piuttosto l'organizzazione di una comunità di esseri fisicamente e spiritualmente solidali, per rendere possibile la conservazione della specie e il raggiungimento dei suoi scopi di esistenza. L'Economia è solo uno dei tanti mezzi che servono al raggiungimento di quella meta

What is life, except an ongoing instinct for survival? Nature uses that instinct to make us perform; otherwise we would all relax, and the species would disappear. Nature is a cruel green mother. The survival instinct is a goad, not a privilege.