Species Quotes

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The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions… — David Attenborough
It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species. — David Attenborough
Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that… — David Attenborough
Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere. — Diane Ackerman
As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters, but I sometimes… — Diane Ackerman
What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to commune with other… — Diane Ackerman
Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers of the Pacific… — Bruce Babbitt
Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became a donkey, which… — Michele Bachmann
The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species. — Dave Barry
As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the… — Martha Beck
U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone. — Bono
Going to Mars would evolve humankind into a two-planet species. — Buzz Aldrin
Every time you dive, you hope you'll see something new - some new species. Sometimes the ocean gives you a gift, sometimes it doesn't. — James Cameron
Atheism has been on the rise for years now, and the Bible of the atheists is 'The Origin of Species.' — Kirk Cameron
If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very… — George Carlin
Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. — Thomas Carlyle
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly. — Noam Chomsky
I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the… — Maya Angelou
I am above the forest region, amongst grand rocks & such a torrent as you see in Salvator Rosa's paintings vegetation all a scrub of… — Joseph Dalton Hooker
On the whole, at least in the author's experience, the preparation of species-specific antiserum fractions and the differentiation of closely related species with precipitin sera… — Karl Landsteiner

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