It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals. — Sara Bonnett Stein Copy Share Image
This boy thinks I am not of his species, that I am some other kind of creature, one that can be crushed… — Dave Eggers 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
Many exhibits from this aquarium use Hawaii's abundant natural daylight. This allows Waikiki to display only live coral, which creates beautiful exhibits.… — John Grant Copy Share Image
Man's unique agony as a species consists in his perpetual conflict between the desire to stand out and the need to blend… — Sydney J. Harris Copy Share Image
I am delighted, one more time, by the daring of my species and the audacity of our flying machines. There is poetry… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
The children and nature movement is fueled by this fundamental idea: the child in nature is an endangered species, and the health… — Richard Louv Copy Share Image
To science we owe dramatic changes in our smug self-image. Astronomy taught us that our Earth is not the center of the… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
Growth and psychic development are therefore guided by: the absorbent mind, the nebulae and the sensitive periods, with their respective mechanisms. It… — Maria Montessori Copy Share Image
We are an arrogant species, full of terrible potential, but we also have a great capacity for love, friendship, generosity, kindness, faith,… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
In the area of species protection, we should concern ourselves with what is right as opposed to what might be easier, or… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
My reluctance to use alien invasion is due to the feeling that we are not likely to be invaded and taken over.… — Clifford D. Simak Copy Share Image
Well I think on a simple ecological level that the diversity of this planet is important for our survival, that all of… — Richard Gere Copy Share Image
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Although humans inherit a biological bias that permits them to feel anger, jealousy, selfishness and envy, and to be rude, aggressive or… — Jerome Kagan 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
I fully support the goal of species protection and conservation and believe that recovery and ultimately delisting of species should be the… — Dennis Cardoza Copy Share Image
Animals are, like us, endangered species on an endangered planet, and we are the ones who are endangering them, it, and ourselves.… — Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson Copy Share Image
The key word is flexibility, the ability to adapt constantly. Darwin said it clearly. People thought that he mainly talked about survival… — Philippe Kahn 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
I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
... since birth control roots in a species of selfishness, the spiritual life of the user of contraceptives is also weakened. Women… — John Andreas Widtsoe Copy Share Image
Great men are true men, the men in whom nature has succeeded. They are not extraordinary - they are in the true… — Henri Frederic Amiel Copy Share Image
Life is a fight, but not everyone’s a fighter. Otherwise, bullies would be an endangered species. — Andrew Vachss Copy Share Image
It seems inconceivable that a species of human could possess fully modern language and not be fully modern in all other ways,… — Richard Leakey Copy Share Image
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit… — Henry Fuseli Copy Share Image
The sooner we become a multi-planet species, the safer the species is, and the stronger the guarantee that we're going to continue… — Ron Howard Copy Share Image
As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways,… — Martha Beck Copy Share Image
I am a big believer of what Darwin discovered in the Galapagos, proving that the species most responsive to change will survive… — John Elkann Copy Share Image
Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary… — Paul Berg Copy Share Image
The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species,… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If… — Paul Watson Copy Share Image
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species. — Anthony Storr Copy Share Image
It is almost impossible to convince people who are under the influence of ideological bigotry that whose whom they regard as belonging… — Louis J. Halle Copy Share Image
Human beings are a social species. We like to hang together in groups, just like wildebeests, just like lions. Wildebeests don't hang… — Dan Phillips Copy Share Image
Natural selection is all about the differential success of rival DNA in getting itself transmitted vertically in the species archives. — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
