Species Quotes · Page 69

Most elegantly finished in all parts, [the hummingbird] is a miniature work of our Great Parent, who seems to have formed it…

— J. Hector St. John de Crevecoeur

I describe not men, but manners; not an individual, but a species.

— Henry Fielding

I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely…

— Piers Anthony

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of…

— David Suzuki

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between…

— David Attenborough

The theory of natural selection is the centerpiece of The Origin of Species and of evolutionary theory. It is this theory that…

— Douglas J. Futuyma

I just believe that our most redeeming feature as a species is our capacity for love.

— Amanda McBroom

Let us try to teach generosity and altruism, because we are born selfish. Let us understand what our own selfish genes are…

— Richard Dawkins

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.

— Charles Darwin

To recognize that nature has neither a preference for our species nor a bias against it takes only a little courage.

— James Randi

"I think I know the real reason." "Which is?" "Alcohol in the dust clouds. Goddamn stuff is everywhere. Any lousy species ever…

— Iain Banks

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the…

— Daniel Keys Moran

Prostitution is the most hideous of the afflictions produced by the unequal distribution of the world's goods; this infamy stigmatizes the human…

— Flora Tristan

An important species of pleasure, and therewith the source of morality, arises out of habit.

— Friedrich Nietzsche

Throughout history, the human species has struggled to some extent. It's part of us, as human beings, to provide better for our…

— Patricia Arquette

Vortices of pure energy can exist and, if my theories are right, can compose the bodily form of an intelligent species.

— Lord Kelvin

For millions of years, this world has been a great gift to nearly everything living on it, a planet whose atmosphere, temperature,…

— Rebecca Solnit

The [film] business is run by men, and they're basically interested in their own species, and they're not so interested in women…

— Bette Midler

“Humility is a virtue of the heavenly, not arrogance. Are we the most superior beast on earth? No, not in strength and…

— Suzy Kassem

I don't like the beach. I think we have no business at the beach at all, as a species. We don't belong…

— Billy Connolly

We're a young species; We're only 175,000 years old. On the evolutionary scale, life on this planet is 4 billion years old.…

— Tom Shadyac

Solve global warming, eliminate the nuclear threat, and we will still have to confront the vastness of our species and the way…

— Verlyn Klinkenborg

There's always the danger when you have influenzas that infect chickens, that when you have the close quarters of chickens spreading from…

— Anthony Fauci

The whip degrades; a severe father teaches his children to dissemble; their love is pretense, and their obedience a species of self-defense.…

— Robert Green Ingersoll

Grief is a species of idleness.

— Samuel Johnson