If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago. — Martin Seligman Copy Share Image
Our differences are our strength as a species and as a world community. — Nelson Mandela Copy Share Image
“She was so far from his type she might as well have been another species.” — Megan Hart Copy Share Image
How we treat the vulnerable is how we define ourselves as a species. — Russell Brand Copy Share Image
My father so appropriately put it that we are certainly the only animal that makes conscious choices that are bad for our… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
250,000 species of plants and animals recorded and deposited in museums throughout the world did not support the gradual unfolding hoped for… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
The business of the poet, said Imlac, is to examine, not the individual, but the species. — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species. — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
A person's genetic endowment, a product of the evolution of the species, is said to explain part of the workings of his… — B. F. Skinner Copy Share Image
What we need is an electronic encyclopedia of life, with one page for each species. On each page is given everything known… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being. — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It's really incumbent upon us as life's agents to extend life to another planet. I think that being a multi-planet species will… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
What's happened with society is that we have created these devices, computers, which already can register and process huge amounts of information,… — Seth Lloyd Copy Share Image
Two persons who have chosen each other out of all the species with a design to be each other's mutual comfort and… — Joseph Addison Copy Share Image
It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like,… — Meshell Ndegeocello Copy Share Image
We're confronted with great darkness as a species right now as spiritual creatures on this planet. I don't think it's hopeless, and… — Bruce Cockburn Copy Share Image
The conclusion, therefore, is that there are two major forces in society: love, which multiplies the species, and the nose, which subordinates… — Machado de Assis Copy Share Image
I believe that any form of art is a species of exploration and transgression. ... Art by its nature is a transgressive… — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The very first thing I tell my new students on the first day of a workshop is that good writing is about… — Anne Lamott Copy Share Image
Speaking of dust, ‘out of which we came and to which we shall return,’ do you know that after we are dead… — Joris-Karl Huysmans Copy Share Image
We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Generally biobanking is really designed more for urban areas, with the offsets being offered in non-urban areas. It may be able to… — Frank Sartor Copy Share Image
Usually you just use these words: "I give you my, I make this commitment to you, I honor this idea between us."… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
I see the mycelium as the Earth's natural Internet, a consciousness with which we might be able to communicate. Through cross-species interfacing,… — Paul Stamets Copy Share Image
There was no mistaking her sincerity--it breathed in every tone of her voice. Both Marilla and Mrs. Lynde recognized its unmistakable ring.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Another thing cooking is, or can be, is a way to honor the things we're eating, the animals and plants and fungi… — Michael Pollan Copy Share Image
Nin knew how much humans loved money, riches, and material things-though he never really could understand why. The more technologically advanced the… — Jess C Scott Copy Share Image
But the truth is that Homo sapiens is a sensual species. I think all species are, to one degree or another. — Jock Sturges Copy Share Image
Looking at this insolent earth, you hear the first battle cry of our species- trap it under a rock and together, screaming,… — Naz?m Hikmet Copy Share Image
Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species. — Remy de Gourmont Copy Share Image
(Gray) Davis said yesterday that he is going to fight like a Bengal tiger, which I believe is also an endangered species. — Jay Leno Copy Share Image
You know, I think there's a good rule of thumb here: Don't take nutritional advice from other species. — Craig Ferguson Copy Share Image
No species, ours included, possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by its genetic history. — Edward'O Copy Share Image
The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes. — George Carlin Copy Share Image
Drawing is the artist's most direct and spontaneous expression, a species of writing: it reveals, better than does painting, his true personality. — Edgar Degas Copy Share Image
Pain is pain, and the importance of preventing unnecessary pain and suffering does not diminish because the being that suffers is not… — Peter Singer Copy Share Image
We must realize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
