Quotes About Species

There's no evolutionary advantage to long life.

Climate affects bipeds in the same way it does quadrupeds.

Who are we as a species? What evolutionary journey are we on? Do we have the inner potentials to meet the demands of the outer world? Can we rise in our maturity and grow into a healing and healthy relationship with the Earth?

Jack as "something of a rare species" in a nation "steeped in corruption.

Alternatively, we could keep on as we are: ignoring or playing down the risks and putting responsibility for action elsewhere. But that would mean taking a monumental gamble with our children's future, and a species as intelligent as ours surely wouldn't do that. Would it?

If you watch animals objectively for any length of time, you're driven to the conclusion that their main aim in life is to pass on their genes to the next generation.

Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.

Chances are, when we meet intelligent life forms in outer space they're going to be descended from predators.

Suppose we were to teach creationism. What would be the content of the teaching? Merely that a creator formed the universe and all species of life ready-made? Nothing more? No details?

For me, the meaning of life is pretty clear: Living things strive to pass their genes into the future.

As members of the same human species, you and I share all but 0.01% (1/100th of 1%) of identical genetic sequences.

There is no universal language in the jungles; each species has its own language, and though the vocabulary of some is limited, as in the case of porcupines and vultures, the language of each species is understood by all the jungle-folk.

Meanwhile, in our society we face not only persecution of people with diverse expressions of gender and sexuality, but also the prospect of doing permanent harm to the integrity of the gene pool of our species, thereby damaging our species for posterity.

It seems both outrageous and irresponsible that so few mental health clinicians connect the epidemics of mental distress in industrial societies with the devastating impact of our suicidal destruction of our own habitat and ecocidal elimination of whole species. — Linda Buzzel and Craig Chalquist

A prime test for madness and paranoia is called 'insurance.' If a species has 'insurance,' it is patently doomed. Only a toylike, salivating, pent-up bunch of gruntlings could conceive of such a sociopathic type of gambling.

This book argues that staying alive—for every species—requires livable collaborations. Collaboration means working across difference, which leads to contamination. Without collaborations, we all die.

Humor is probably species specific

Do you know what the Sharkgard call humans on a ship?>

As many as 1 million plant and animal species (of 8 million total) are threatened with extinction, some within a few decades.

concluded that "nature is declining globally at rates unprecedented in human history." It noted that 75% of all land has been "severely altered" by human actions, as has 66% of the world's ocean area. Ecosystems are collapsing, and biodiversity is disappearing. As many as 1 million plant and animal species

I reasoned that God, while improbable, might exist, in which case he should be worshipped; whereas Humanity, being a mere biological idea and signifying nothing more than the animal species we belong to, was no more deserving of worship than any other animal species. The cult of Humanity, with its rites of Freedom and Equality, always struck me as a revival of those ancient cults in which gods were like animals or had animal heads.

La verdad es que son precisamente los animales quienes sólo emplean el sexo para procrear

Well I think on a simple ecological level that the diversity of this planet is important for our survival, that all of our different cultures, people are important to the health of the whole the same way that a species of animal should be saved and at a simple ecology level.

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.