As a general rule of biology, migratory species are less 'aggressive' than sedentary ones. — Bruce Chatwin Copy Share Image
It is love; love, the comfort of the human species, the preserver of the universe, the soul of all sentient beings, love,… — Voltaire Copy Share Image
To speak highly of one with whom we are intimate is a species of egotism. Our modesty as well as our jealousy… — William Hazlitt Copy Share Image
Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species. — Jack Horner Copy Share Image
If ever there was a fish made to endure, it is the Atlantic cod... But it has among its predators - man,… — Mark Kurlansky Copy Share Image
I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest. — Vivienne Westwood Copy Share Image
Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way… — Ayn Rand Copy Share Image
Our survival depends on the healing power of love, intimacy and relationships. As individuals. As communities. As a country. As a culture.… — Dean Ornish Copy Share Image
Given the brevity of our time here, it does seem likely that our species, too, must have at best a blinkered understanding… — Karen Russell Copy Share Image
Contrasting British servicemen and women with the appeasers, it is hard not to laugh. Are these two sides even the same species,… — Julie Burchill Copy Share Image
It is not man who is the enemy of the human species. It is the irrational; it is the spiritual when it… — Anne Rice Copy Share Image
With every inch of land on Earth now catalogued by our satellites, the stars are the next place we as a species… — Ben Parr Copy Share Image
“Most of the time, it felt like my father and I were completely different species. Possibly literally, depending on the day and… — Jennifer Lynn Barnes Copy Share Image
Despite one or two minority appeals our society is not outraged at man's unremitting use of the animal world. Ecologists and environmentalists… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever,… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
The very general occurrence of the homosexual in ancient Greece, and its wide occurrence today in some cultures in which such activity… — Alfred Kinsey Copy Share Image
There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence can lead… — Vern Huffman Copy Share Image
Words are acoustical signs for concepts; concepts, however, are more or less definite image signs for often recurring and associated sensations, for… — Friedrich Nietzsche Copy Share Image
Great problems are now being handled, keeping every thinking man in suspense; the unity or multiplicity of human races; the creation of… — Louis Pasteur Copy Share Image
Throughout human history, as our species has faced the frightening, terrorizing fact that we do not know who we are, or where… — Timothy Leary Copy Share Image
Just imagine the banner headlines if a marine biologist were to discover a species of dolphin that wove large, intricately meshed fishing… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
“Naming species is not big science. It is like mapmaking or dictionary work and, on its own, of relatively little use. But… — Rob Dunn Copy Share Image
We are here because one odd group of fishes had a peculiar fin anatomy that could transform into legs for terrestrial creatures;… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Joan was nothing more than a friend. He was not in love with her. One does not fall in love with a… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up. — Dennis Weaver 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
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
The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about. — Jack Hanna 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
The sacrifice of personal existence is necessary to secure the preservation of the species. — Adolf Hitler 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
[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