Species Quotes - Page 27

• We're smart enough to know we need to live in groups to survive, but we're still animals and we needs lots of room. In the case of the male of the species we also probably need that-guy-over-there's space. And his wife and cow, too.

  Julia Phillips

  Smart, Men, Animal

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• Many species reciprocate, but only humans gossip, and much of what we gossip about is the vale of other people as partners for reciprocal relationships.

  Jonathan Haidt

  People, Gossip, Partners

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• the compulsion to read and write - and it seems to me it should be, even must be, a compulsion - is a bit of mental wiring the species has selected, over time, in order, as the life span increases, to keep us interested in ourselves.

  Lorrie Moore

  Reading, Writing, Order

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• Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Running, Errors, Light

  "The Sixth Extinction?" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.

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• Love and friendship, two of life's abiding rewards, are endangered species in Hollywood. People crave both, mistaking alliance for friendship, lust for love, and ambition for both.

  Lynda Obst

  Ambition, Two, People

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• If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place.

  Dave Sitek

  Moving, Thinking, Together

  "TV on the Radio". Interview with Chris Dahlen, pitchfork.com. October 2, 2006.

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• Our society is turning toward more and more needless consumption. It is a vicious circle that I compare to cancer . . . . Should we eliminate suffering, diseases? The idea is beautiful, but perhaps not a benefit for the long term. We should not allow our dread of diseases to endanger the future of our species. . . . In order to stabilize world population, we need to eliminate 350,000 people a day. It is a horrible thing to say, but it's just as bad not to say it.

  Jacques Yves Cousteau

  Beautiful, Cancer, Order

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• Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?

  Buzz Aldrin

  Destiny, Play, Computer

  "Buzz Aldrin: The Right Stuff". Interview with Jim Clash, www.askmen.com.

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• One of the most irresponsible things we can do is eat in ignorance, without any awareness of what our eating is doing to the world or to other species.

  Michael Pollan

  Ignorance, World, Eating

  "Michael Pollan: The Omnivore’s Dilemma". Interview with Anne E. McBride, leitesculinaria.com. March 20, 2007.

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• A satirist, often in danger himself, has the bravery of knowing that to withhold wit's conjecture is to endanger the species.

  Penelope Gilliatt

  Knowing, Bravery, Satire

  Penelope Gilliatt (1990). “To wit: skin and bones of comedy”, Scribner

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• Conscience is the still small voice that has been trying since the infancy of our species to tell us that we are evolutionarily, emotionally, and spiritually One, and that if we seek peace and happiness, we must behave that way.

  Martha Stout

  Voice, Trying, Way

  Martha Stout, Ph.D. (2005). “The Sociopath Next Door”, p.216, Harmony

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• We may talk of saving antique linens, species, or languages; but whatever we are intent on saving, when a restoration succeeds, we rescue ourselves.

  Howard Mansfield

  Restoration, Saving, May

  Howard Mansfield (2001). “The Same Ax, Twice: Restoration and Renewal in a Throwaway Age”, p.12, UPNE

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• What happens to other species also happens to us.

  Bill Nye

  Happens

  Bill Nye (2014). “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”, p.4, St. Martin's Press

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• The tendency of life is not the preservation of the species, but solely the preservation of each individual organism, as long as it is in existence at all, and is able to carry on its life processes.

  Boris Sidis

  Long, Able, Life Is

  "Nervous Ills their Cause and Cure" by Boris Sidis, (p. 20), 1922.

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• No one is shallow and vulgar forever; sooner or later the whole species likes to be profound.

  Carol Bly

  Profound, Forever, Likes

  Carol Bly (2000). “My Lord Bag of Rice: New and Selected Stories”, p.51, Milkweed Editions

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• If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world we inherited from our elders.

  James Hansen

  Nature, Climate, World

  "Coal-fired power stations are death factories. Close them". www.theguardian.com. February 15, 2009.

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• Climate change is not a major issue because it will cause sea level rises or temperature increases, since we know how to live at higher elevations and regulate the temperature within our homes. It is a major issue because ecosystems are finding it difficult to adapt to the rapidity of the climate and environmental changes and are dying off, thereby accelerating the species extinction that is already underway due to our consumption habits.

  Shailesh Rao

  Nature, Home, Sea

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• Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If we dont find answers to these problems, were gonna be victims of this extinction event that were at fault for.

  Paul Watson

  Animal, Years, Events

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• The shark is the apex predator in the sea. Sharks have molded evolution for 450 million years. All fish species that are prey to the sharks have had their behavior, their speed, their camouflage, their defense mechanisms molded by the shark.

  Paul Watson

  Sharks, Years, Sea

  "Sea Shepherd: How We Sank the Japanese Whaling Fleet". Interview with Deborah Bassett, www.theecologist.org. April 21, 2011.

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• I believe all sin, love, glory are this: when you slide down the knotted sheets, escaping from Gestapo headquarters, and she hugs you, there, suspended, and she whispers that she's always dreamed of you. The rest is just sex, copulation, the perpetuation of the vile species.

  Umberto Eco

  Sex, Believe, Escaping

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• All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is the mind; which is a more constant quantity over all the species of humanity than is generally supposed.

  Aleister Crowley

  Humanity, Mind, Looks

  Aleister Crowley (2014). “Eight Lectures on Yoga”, p.2, Lulu Press, Inc

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• Human can surprise you sometimes. An unpredictable species, Homo sapiens

  Katherine Applegate

  Sometimes, Surprise, Unpredictable

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• We suffered a terrible blow on 11 September 2001. We responded with fear and anger. A fight-or-flight response is adaptive in any species. For us, given our power, fight was the only response we could imagine.

  Yochai Benkler

  Fighting, Blow, September

  "Manning and Snowden light path for the US to return to its better self" by Yochai Benkler, www.theguardian.com. July 26, 2013.

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• We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

  Daniel Suarez

  Book, Population, Needs

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• He who is unconscious of the ties which connect him with every individual of his species feels no obligation to make sacrifices for their welfare or happiness.

  Benjamin Robbins Curtis

  Sacrifice, Ties, Welfare

  Benjamin Robbins Curtis, George Ticknor Curtis (1879). “A Memoir of Benjamin Robbins Curtis, LL. D.: Professional and miscellaneous writings”, Boston : Little, Brown,

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