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Species Quotes by David Suzuki
- 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…
- My Prime Minister regards the economy as our highest priority and forgets that economics and ecology are derived from the same Greek word, oikos, meaning…
- For the first time since life appeared on earth, one species- us- is single-handedly altering the physical, chemical and biological nature of earth. We have…
- Danish studies of 10,000 birds killed revealed that almost all died in collisions with buildings, cars and wires; only 10 were killed by windmills. Alternative…
- The way we see the world shapes the way we treat it. If a mountain is a deity, not a pile of ore; if a…
- Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions,…
- Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.
- Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to…
- The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives,…
- Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in…
More Species Quotes
- 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
- 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… — 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,… — Diane Ackerman
- What a lonely species we are, searching for signals of life from other galaxies, adopting companion animals, visiting parks and zoos to… — Diane Ackerman
- Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers… — Bruce Babbitt
- Where do we say that a cell became a blade of grass, which became a starfish, which became a cat, which became… — 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,… — 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