Species Quotes · Page 7

It's animal by animal that you save a species.

— Diane Ackerman

Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.

— Scott Westerfeld

I think that fiction has a part to play in urging us, as a species, toward compassion,

— George Saunders

A race is what zoologists term a variety or subdivision of a species.

— J. Philippe Rushton

The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.

— Anonymous

You can cut a tree down, and it grows back. Once a species goes, it's gone forever.

— Mark Shand

Thus I live in the world rather as a spectator of mankind than as one of the species.

— Joseph Addison

Fate succumbs many a species: one alone jeopardises itself.

— Anonymous

As a species, we are forever sticking our finger into the electric socket of the universe to see what will happen next.

— Terry Pratchett

We live in a world bathed in 5,000 times more energy than we consume as a species in the year, in the…

— Peter Diamandis

If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth... This is the real…

— Nhat Hanh

But I think humans are innately religious as a species, so you don't need a specific excuse for examining the perversely unholy.

— Clive Barker

Either a species learns to control its own population, or something like disease, famine, war, will take care of the issue.

— Chuck Palahniuk

Each simian had a much different body suit, so besides trying to define class across species, there was a definite attempt to…

— Colleen Atwood

All other species on this planet are gene machines only. They don't imitate at all well; we alone are gene machines and…

— Susan Blackmore

I am principled against this kind of traffic in the human species . . . and to disperse the families I have an aversion.

— George Washington

There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense…

— Samuel Johnson

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

— Richard Dawkins

We, as Americans, at least - I mean, I love my country - but we're so self-righteous sometimes, in terms of, like,…

— Peter Dinklage

Eighty-two percent of Australia's bird species and two thirds of Australia's mammal species can be found on our (Australian Wildlife Conservancy) reserves.…

— Kristy Hinze

Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that…

— David Quammen

I think that space flight is a condition of Nature that comes into effect when an intelligent species reaches the saturation point…

— Donald A. Wollheim

I can't imagine a mental life, a spiritual existence, not inextricably bound up with language of a formal, mediated nature. Telling stories,…

— Joyce Carol Oates

There are many ways to make the most of your time on the planet, and propagation of the species is just one…

— Mariella Frostrup

“Everyone wants to rule the world . . . Really, absolutely everyone. That's what it's all about, isn't it? That's what it's…

— Akif Pirinçci

A true community consists of individuals - not mere species members, not couples - respecting each others individuality and privacy while at…

— Valerie Solanas

The tragedy of a species becoming unfit for life by over-evolving one ability is not confined to humankind. Thus it is thought,…

— Peter Wessel Zapffe

“The two of them had fallen into the habit of bartering knowledge whenever she visited. He schooled her in jazz, in bebop…

— Tracy Guzeman

Lots of people think, well, we're humans; we're the most intelligent and accomplished species; we're in charge. Bacteria may have a different…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

I am aware that the conclusions arrived at in this work will be denounced by some as highly irreligious; but he who…

— Charles Darwin

Yes, I spent two long years, traveling all over the United States, all over Europe, interviewing many, many, many people who had…

— Ben Stein

... on these expanded membranes [butterfly wings] Nature writes, as on a tablet, the story of the modifications of species, so truly…

— Henry Walter Bates

The immense majority of our species are candidates for humanity, and nothing more.

— Henri Frederic Amiel

We are the first species capable of self-annihilation.

— Elon Musk

Males are the most incomprehensible species.

— Rachel Cohn

When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

— Timothy Zahn

Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens

— Katherine Applegate

... not one living species will transmit its unaltered likeness to a distant futurity.

— Charles Darwin

Of course he would count the time that we'd been two entirely different species.

— Maggie Stiefvater

A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears.

— Charles Darwin