Best Species Wisdom

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The idea that it is funny to see wild animals coerced into acting like clumsy humans, or thrilling to see powerful beasts reduced to cringing… — Desmond Morris
Biological diversity is the key to the maintenance of the world as we know it... Eliminate one species, and another increases to take its place.… — E. O. Wilson
It is well there is no one without fault; for he would not have a friend in the world. He would seem to belong to… — William Hazlitt
My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should… — Mahatma Gandhi
They sensed that what had happened around them and in their presence, and in them, was irrevocable. Never again could it be cleansed; it would… — Primo Levi
If you want to preserve your virginity, it's about not wanting to belong to the human species. — Catherine Breillat
Darwin's greatest achievement was to show that the appearance of purpose, planning, teleology (design), and intentionality in the origin and development of human and animal… — John Searle
We have a responsibility to protect the rights of generations, of all species, that cannot speak for themselves today. The global challenge of climate change… — Wangari Maathai
My three main goals would be to reduce human population to about 100 million worldwide, destroy the industrial infrastructure and see wilderness, with it's full… — David Foreman
The only real good technology is no technology at all. Technology is taxation without representation, imposed by our elitist species (man) upon the rest of… — Eric Pianka
An infinity of these tiny animals defoliate our plants, our trees, our fruits... they attack our houses, our fabrics, our furniture, our clothing, our furs… — Rene Antoine Ferchault de Reaumur
Protecting our future on this planet depends on the conscious evolution of our species. — Leonardo DiCaprio
Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's forests… — David Suzuki
The laws of Coexistence;-the adaptation of structure to function; and to a certain extent the elucidation of natural affinities may be legitimately founded upon the… — Richard Owen
In reality, those who deny climate change and demand a halt to emissions reduction and mitigation work, want us to take a huge gamble with… — Edward Davey
We can almost recycle everything now. If we lived within our means, by being prudent, the 7 billion people in the world could have everything… — Jose Mujica
Our species in general had grown accustomed to pain and adversity through millennia of struggle . . . we were only recently evolving the ability… — Gay Hendricks
Grief is a species of idleness. — Samuel Johnson
You cannot begin to preserve any species of animal unless you preserve the habitat in which it dwells. Disturb or destroy that habitat and you… — Gerald Durrell
Nature is a collective idea, and, though its essence exist in each individual of the species, can never in its perfection inhabit a single object. — Henry Fuseli
I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want… — Jonathan Franzen
Among the environmental trends undermining our future are shrinking forests, expanding deserts, falling water tables, collapsing fisheries, disappearing species, and rising temperatures. The temperature increases… — Lester R. Brown
Man will survive as a species for one reason: He can adapt to the destructive effects of our power-intoxicated technology and of our ungoverned population… — Rene Dubos
Global warming threatens the survival of our species. — Lucien Bouchard
Are we to regard the world of nature simply as a storehouse to be robbed for the immediate benefit of man? ... Does man have… — Kenneth E. Boulding

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