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Species Quotes by Desmond Morris
- We are to put it mildly, in a mess, and there is a strong chance that we shall have exterminated ourselves by the end of…
- 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…
- I think like the species I am studying, whatever it is. If I am watching a lizard, I become the lizard. Gazing ath the water…
- There are one hundred and ninety-three living species of monkeys and apes. One hundred and ninety-two of them are covered with hair. The exception is…
- We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This…
- It must be stressed that there is nothing insulting about looking at people as animals. We are animals, after all. Homo sapiens is a species…
- Sexual behavior in our species goes through three characteristic phases: pair formation, precopulatory activity, and copulation, usually but not always in that order. The pair-formation…
- There is nothing biologically unusual about a homosexual act of pseudocopulation. Many species indulge in this, under a variety of circumstances.
- Looking back now on the whole sexual scene we can see that our species has remained much more loyal to its basic biological urges than…
- This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental…
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