Quotes About Species

I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health of children and the health of the Earth are inseparable.

Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object.

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

A species is a reproductive community of populations reproductively isolated from others that occupies a specific niche in nature.

Their [cats] effortless passing between the wild and domestic worlds suggests the kind of grace we need as a species to move between nature and culture.

Love is only a feeling of curiousity more or less intense, grafted upon the inclination placed in us by nature that the species may be preserved.

From the war of nature, from famine and death, the most exalted object which we are capable of conceiving, namely, the production of higher animals, directly follows.

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.

It is only on the condition of humility and reverence before the world that our species will be able to remain in it.

Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of human species, as well as the earth species for that matter.

I think about capitalism, consumerism, our consumptive nature as a species approaching the 21st century. I certainly don't have the answers.

There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.

I have called this principle by which each slight variation if useful is preserved by the term natural selection.

Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he's destroying is this God he's worshiping.

There are 200, 000 species of fly alone. So the void, the emptiness, must be in you.

In the natural equation (Natural Society) freedom, is but the only element of equality commonly shared by all species".

No one has yet determined the power of the human species . . . what it may perform by instinct, and what it may accomplish with rational determination.

I don't use the word 'pet.' I think it's speciest language. I prefer 'companion animal.' We would no longer allow... pet shops... Eventually companion animals would be phased out.

[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion.

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.

Animal cruelty is one of the most unfortunate and barbaric demonstrations of human beings manipulating ill conceived notions of 'power' over other species.