It will not be we who reach Alpha Centauri, and the other nearby stars. It will be a species very like us… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save… — Joel Sartore Copy Share Image
Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it. — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species. — Arianna Huffington Copy Share Image
If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for? — Octavia E. Butler Copy Share Image
We share this planet with many species. It is our responsibility to protect them, both for their sakes and our own. — Pamela A. Matson Copy Share Image
It is not the strongest of the species that survive, nor the most intelligent, but the one most responsive to change. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Becoming vegan is the most important and direct change we can immediately make to save the planet and its species. — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' -… — Will Self Copy Share Image
Night after night the nightingale came to beg for divine love, but though the rose trembled at the sound of his voice,… — Susan Kay Copy Share Image
Nature seemed to have adorned herself for our departure with a profusion of fringes and curls, mingled with the bright tints of… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share Image
The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea.… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these… — Wavy Gravy Copy Share Image
It struck me as I listened to those two men that a truer nomination (name) for our species than Homo sapiens might… — Henning Mankell Copy Share Image
Who’s going to keep them from wiping us out species by species? Not me. We aren’t prepared for a new demographic of… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
Taking care of our families isn't just about putting food on the table today. It's about ensuring that our children and grandchildren… — Jane Velez-Mitchell Copy Share Image
Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an… — Anatole France Copy Share Image
She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that… — Ruth Ozeki Copy Share Image
“Even properly functioning defenses are subject to activation errors, evolutionary/developmental mismatches and maladaptive learning; moreover, mechanisms that are initially functional may become… — Marco del Giudice Copy Share Image
We know the product is going to stink. We know that because we live in the world, and we know that everything… — Jerry Seinfeld Copy Share Image
I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
Religion comes from the period of human prehistory where nobody - not even the mighty Democritus who concluded that all matter was… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
The human being is that space in which the comprehensive compassion that pervades the universe from the very beginning now begins to… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
In one way, traveling has narrowed my mind. What I have discovered is something very ordinary and unexciting, which is that humans… — Christopher Hitchens Copy Share Image
We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations. — Loretta Lynch Copy Share Image
The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species. — Adolf Hitler Copy Share Image
[A]ny species that exempts itself from the rules of competition ends up destroying the community in order to support its own expansion. — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“Man is the most insane species. He worships an invisible God and destroys a visible Nature. Unaware that this Nature he’s destroying… — Hubert Reeves Copy Share Image
To suppose that the eye could have been formed by natural selection, seems, I freely confess, absurd in the highest possible degree — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Why is it that no other species but man gets bored? Under the circumstances in which a man gets bored, a dog… — Walker Percy Copy Share Image
...An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
The discovery informs about the origins and early evolution of arthropods, the most ubiquitous, species-rich, morphologically diverse and successful animal group on… — Benjamin Van Roy Copy Share Image
We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to… — Levi Strauss Copy Share Image
Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to… — Jo Brand Copy Share Image
As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers. — Paul Allen Copy Share Image
The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about. — Jack Hanna Copy Share Image
We're an amazingly adaptive and resilient species. Once we put our mind to global warming, I have no doubt we'll figure a… — Andrew Revkin Copy Share Image
Habit is, to weak minds, a species of moral predestination, from which they have no power to escape. — Maria Edgeworth Copy Share Image
... probably all the organic beings which have ever lived on this earth have descended from some one primordial form, into which… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image