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Species Quotes by Georges-Louis Leclerc, Comte de Buffon
- An Individual, whatever species it might be, is nothing in the Universe. A hundred, a thousand individuals are still nothing. The species are the only…
- It appears that all that can be, is. The Creator's hand does not appear to have been opened in order to give existence to a…
- The greatest marvel is not in the individual. It is in the succession, in the renewal and in the duration of the species that Nature…
- He [man] abuses equally other animals and his own species, the rest of whom live in famine, languish in misery, and work only to satisfy…
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- Well, I think breathing life into the Endangered Species Act, taking those wolves back into Yellowstone, restoring the salmon in the rivers… — Bruce Babbitt
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- The real threat to whales is whaling, which has endangered many whale species. — Dave Barry
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- 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