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Species Quotes by Lewis Thomas
- Animals, even plants, lie to each other all the time, and we could restrict the research to them, putting off the real truth about ourselves…
- I am entitled to say, if I like, that awareness exists in all the individual creatures on the planet-worms, sea urchins, gnats, whales, subhuman primates,…
- It is my belief, based partly on personal experience but partly also arrived at by looking around at others, that childhood lasts considerably longer in…
- I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At our worst, we…
- At this early stage in our evolution, now through our infancy and into our childhood and then, with luck, our growing up, what our species…
- Animals have genes for altruism, and those genes have been selected in the evolution of many creatures because of the advantage they confer for the…
- Any species capable of producing, at this earliest, juvenile stage of its development... the music of Johann Sebastian Bach, cannot be all bad.
- As a species, taking all in all, we are still too young, too juvenile, to be trusted. We have spread across the face of the…
- I am a member of a fragile species, still new to the earth, the youngest creatures of any scale, here only a few moments as…
- As evolutionary time is measured, we have only just turned up and have hardly had time to catch breath, still marveling at our thumbs, still…
- Once you have become permanently startled, as I am, by the realization that we are a social species, you tend to keep an eye out…
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