Quotes About Species

If we confound and break up the proposed unfolding the world impresses upon us, we can give ourselves the space to consider what we want to be as a species.

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.

?As the neurobiology of our species gets more and more complicated, its functional expression, which we call the mind, shall get more vivid and productive.

We're the only species who hunts for sport.

There's always the danger when you have influenzas that infect chickens, that when you have the close quarters of chickens spreading from one to another and occasionally a human coming into close contact, that there will be the jumping of species from a chicken to a human. This is not something new.

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.

War is being waged all across the country against the invasive plant and animal species - some 50,000 of them - now spreading across the U.S.

The evolution of the brain not only overshot the needs of prehistoric man, it is the only example of evolution providing a species with an organ which it does not know how to use.

Man is a wingless animal with two feet and flat nails.

If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod... But it has among its predators - man, an openmouthed species greedier than cod.

As a single atom man is an enigma: as a whole he is a mathematical problem. As an individual he is a free agent, as a species the offspring of necessity.

The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

In man (as the only rational creature on earth) those natural capacities which are directed to the use of his reason are to be fully developed only in the race, not in the individual.

A fruitfly is ancient in 40 days, a mouse at 3 years, a horse at 30, a man at 100, and some species of tortoises not until 150 years.

We thus learn that man is descended from a hairy quadruped, furnished with a tail and pointed ears, probably arboreal in its habits, and an inhabitant of the Old World.

Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.

Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.

The main conclusion here arrived at ... is that man is descended from some less highly organized form.

You are an explorer, and you represent our species, and the greatest good you can do is to bring back a new idea, because our world is endangered by the absence of good ideas. Our world is in crisis because of the absence of consciousness.

The Queensland Museum verified that it was an undescribed species that would be called Irwin's turtle-- Elseya irwini, forever named after Steve.

We toured the park, seeing parrots, wombats, and tiger snakes. "Koalas and primates," Dick said. "We'll get some koalas and primates and then we'll be set." I thought back to how many times Steve and I had said something similar. "Just one more species and then our zoo will be done." I was coming to realize that Australia Zoo would never be done. There were too many species in the world that needed our help.

Nothing in Biology Makes Sense Except in the Light of Evolution.

Through my love for you, I want to express my love for the whole cosmos, the whole of humanity, and all beings. By living with you, I want to learn to love everyone and all species. If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real message of love.

Natural inclinations are present in things from God, who moves all things. So it is impossible for the natural inclinations of a species to be toward evil in itself. But there is in all perfect animals a natural inclination toward carnal union. Therefore it is impossible for carnal union to be evil in itself.