We are the only species on the planet without full employment. Brilliant. — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something. — Terry Pratchett Copy Share Image
Every time we lose a species webreak a life chain which has evolved over 3.5 billion years. — Jeff McNeely Copy Share Image
It may be a species of impudence to think that the way you understand God is the way God is. (60). — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
The point of sloths is to bring a sense of wonder, magic, and happiness to all other species. Did you know that… — Ann Burton Copy Share Image
Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust. — Ray Kurzweil Copy Share Image
Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life. — Marcel Theroux Copy Share Image
One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
Economists (and others) who are satisfied with nature-free equations develop a dangerous hubris about the potency of our species — Garrett Hardin Copy Share Image
My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows… — Julia Cameron Copy Share Image
The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
It seems obvious that if a species has the brainpower for speech, along with the sort of appendages that can manipulate a… — Seth Shostak Copy Share Image
I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. . . . Sometimes I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
There are some tempers--how shall I describe them--formed either of such impenetrable matter, or wrought up by habitual selfishness to such an… — Laurence Sterne Copy Share Image
In man, social intercourse has centred mainly on the process of absorbing fluid into the organism, but in the domestic dog and… — Olaf Stapledon Copy Share Image
From a human point of view, the difference between the mind of a human and that of a mountain goat is wonderful;… — Wendell Berry Copy Share Image
It was certainly not this mummified and outrageously painted old woman he was seeing before him, but the entire "female species," as… — Nikos Kazantzakis Copy Share Image
Diversity is a survival factor for the community itself. A community of a hundred million species can survive anything short of total… — Daniel Quinn Copy Share Image
Many animals experience pain, anxiety and suffering, physically and psychologically, when they are held in captivity or subjected to starvation, social isolation,… — Marc Bekoff Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Both ground- rents and the ordinary rent of land are a species of revenue which the owner, in many cases, enjoys without… — Adam Smith Copy Share Image
Humanity is a biological species, living in a biological environment, because like all species, we are exquisitely adapted in everything: from our… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Upon this subject, the habits of our whole species fall into three great classes--useful labour, useless labour and idleness. Of these the… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
