Species Quotes · Page 4

Gratitude is a species of justice.

— Samuel Johnson

We are a species addicted to a stories.

— Jonathan Gottschall

We are a naturally hierarchical species.

— Octavia E. Butler

Humans need to be a multiplanet species.

— Elon Musk

I never liked my own species.

— Gary Larson

“Not my species, not my problem.”

— Susan Sizemore

As a species we're fundamentally insane.

— Stephen King

Strangers are an endangered species.

— Adrienne Rich

I can't think of a greater legacy than, "Because you lived, another species survived."

— Paul Watson

All laws are an attempt to domesticate the natural ferocity of the species.

— John W. Gardner

There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

— Mark Twain

Curiosity and the urge to solve problems are the emotional hallmarks of our species ...

— Carl Sagan

Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.

— Max Stirner

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

— Adlai E. Stevenson

It's impossible by micro-mutation to form any new species.

— Richard Goldschmidt

If evolution exists in every living species, likewise so too does devolution.

— Samael Aun Weor

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

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.

— Jack Hanna

We're the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up.

— Dennis Weaver

Our survival depends on the healing power of love, intimacy and relationships. As individuals. As communities. As a country. As a culture.…

— Dean Ornish

Man is the only living species that has the power to act as his own destroyer - and that is the way…

— Ayn Rand

I do think we're an endangered species. But that we do have a plan to save the rainforest.

— Vivienne Westwood

Books tap the wisdom of our species -- the greatest minds, the best teachers -- from all over the world and from…

— Carl Sagan

[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

If we consider the superiority of the human species, the size of its brain, its powers of thinking, language and organization, we…

— Jean Baudrillard

The fact that a cloud from a minor volcanic eruption in Iceland—a small disturbance in the complex mechanism of life on the…

— Slavoj Žižek

Solitude in the city is about the lack of other people or rather their distance beyond a door or wall, but in…

— Rebecca Solnit

What set us apart from most or all of the other hominid species was our ultrasociality, our ability to be highly cooperative,…

— Jonathan Haidt

American society is very like a fish society. . . . Among certain species of fish, the only thing which determines order…

— Margaret Mead

The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species,…

— Lynn Margulis

These studies resulted eventually in a complete sequence analysis of the complex from several species, and in the atomic resolution structure of…

— John E. Walker

Not a lot of attention has been paid to the Asian tiger mosquito, which is another species which we believe can also…

— Laura Harrington

I always cheerfully say, "Well, you know, the species is adapting, and whatever it needs to do, it'll do," but I do…

— George Saunders

When women think of power, we shouldn’t think of it only for ourselves. We should be thinking about what we’re going to…

— Marianne Williamson

Usually you just use these words: "I give you my, I make this commitment to you, I honor this idea between us."…

— Ian Somerhalder

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

She missed the built environment of New York City. It was only in an urban landscape, amid straight lines and architecture, that…

— Ruth Ozeki

Theologians and philosophers, who make God the creator of Nature and the architect of the Universe, reveal Him to us as an…

— Anatole France

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

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