Species Quotes - Page 30

• We are in the greatest evolutionary transformation in the history of our species. We are expanding beyond the five senses. We are becoming aware of ourselves as immortal souls, as powerful creators and co-creators. We are becoming aware that we experience what we create, and there is no escape from that.

  Gary Zukav

  Powerful, Soul, Becoming

  Source: www.douglasgillies.com

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• I've accepted the fact that there's a beginning and end to everything. All species are born, evolve, and then die off. We're going through the 6th great extinction and the large mammals are going first and, you know what - we're large mammals!

  Yvon Chouinard

  Firsts, Facts, Beginnings And Ends

  "Don of the Dirtbags: An Interview with Yvon Chouinard". The Vertical Interview, theusualmontauk.com. October 22, 2016.

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• Every species, human and subhuman, has some distinguishing mark, so that you can tell a man from a beast, or a dog from a cow.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Dog, Men, Cows

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• My nonviolence does recognize different species of violence, defensive and offensive.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Doe, Different, Violence

  Mahatma Gandhi (1958). “Collected Works”

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• All satyagraha and fasting is a species of tyaga. It depends for its effects upon an expression of wholesome public opinion shorn of all bitterness.

  Mahatma Gandhi

  Expression, Fasting, Public Opinion

  Mahatma Gandhi (1941). “The Indian States' Problem”

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• I agree, along with Carl Sagan, that we should eventually become a two planet species. Life is too precious to place on a single planet.

  Michio Kaku

  Two, Life Is, Sagan

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• I stand by my assertions that although you can know what happens to any individual species that you modify, you cannot be certain what will happen to the ecosystem. Also, we have a strange situation where we have malnourished fat people. It's not that we need more food. It's that we need to manage our food system better.

  Bill Nye

  Ecosystems, People, Needs

  "Bill Nye Explains Why he is a GMO Skeptic" by Keith Kloor, blogs.discovermagazine.com. November 6, 2014.

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• The creation story is ridiculous garbage. And has given us a completely false picture of our origin as a species and the origins of the cosmos. If you want a good mythical story it would be the life of Socrates.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Garbage, Would Be, Cosmos

  Source: www.wanliss.com

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• We [people] have the power to destroy ourselves as well as the environment. As a species we love what I'd call brinks-person-ship, going right to the edge of disaster and somehow managing to pull back and recover. But my bet is still on the creative and playful and positive in the species. I think we will manage to survive and gradually turn things around.

  Richard Bach

  Thinking, People, Creative

  "Richard Bach’s 'Curious Lives'". Interview with Hulbert Cathleen, www.cathleenhulbert.com. 2005.

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• Pick up any history book, and I suggest you begin with studying the 20th century, and you will find that a large part of the history of our species has all the characteristics we would normally associate with a nightmare or an insane hallucination.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Book, Insane, Hallucinations

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• Evolution usually occurs in response to a crisis situation, and we now are faced with such a crisis situation. This is why there is indeed an enormous acceleration in the awakening process of our species.

  Eckhart Tolle

  Awakening, Evolution, Process

  Source: www.qiwithoutborders.org

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• There's racism and sexism and ageism and all sorts of idiocies. But bad news is not news. We've had bad news as a species for a long time. We've had slavery and human sacrifice and the holocaust and brutalities of such measure.

  Maya Angelou

  Sacrifice, Long, Racism

  Source: teentalkingcircles.org

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• If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign that something really serious is going on.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Watches, Extinction, Serious

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• You know, quite a few species of fish require two or more sexual partners.

  Kristen Schaal

  Funny, Humor, Two

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• It's not realistic to imagine that any poem will last forever. Our species won't last forever! We try to capture and preserve our impressions of reality because it's all going away: everything we think and remember, everything we've ever felt, everyone we love.

  James Arthur

  Reality, Thinking, Remembers Everything

  "Poetry As a Way of Thinking: An Interview with James Arthur". Interview with Emilia Phillips, www.32poems.com.

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• If we lose half the species, which could happen by the end of the century if we don't do anything, that's going to create a big difference down the line in the stability and even the economic potential in the living world. Irreversibly.

  E. O. Wilson

  Differences, Half, World

  Source: blog.cleveland.com

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• We don't even know what species are out there, for the most part, particularly when you get down to the microbes and very small invertebrates. They make up the mass of the organisms around us, including the soil we depend on, the soil of cornfields as well as hardwood forests. We haven't taken ecology to the point where we can even make a crude prediction of what's going to happen when we've reduced the living world down to a certain level.

  E. O. Wilson

  Taken, Levels, Soil

  Source: blog.cleveland.com

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• That's the way to get young people. Once they see there are wonderful things to hunt for, to rediscover a species that was thought to be extinct or is extremely rare, to be the first to see a nest, to discover a new species unsuspected close to your home - these are things, I think, with a little education and excitement and the right kind of natural history would actually start a movement that makes going back to nature a profitable adventure.

  E. O. Wilson

  Home, Adventure, Thinking

  Source: blog.cleveland.com

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• Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around the planet by people.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  People, Disease, Planets

  Source: www.pbs.org

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• Even a superficial glance is sufficient to show that all the innumerable forms in which the life-urge of Nature manifests itself are subject to a fundamental law - one may call it an iron law of Nature - which compels the various species to keep within the definite limits of their own life-forms when propagating and multiplying their kind.

  Adolf Hitler

  Law, Iron, Atheism

  Adolf Hitler (2016). “Mein Kampf: My Struggle: (Vol. I & Vol. II) - (Complete & Illustrated Edition)”, p.282, eKitap Projesi

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• And at this moment in history, our core value happens to be the raw, aching truth of the human predicament. It may also be the only belief that can save us as a species. A species that will continue to find comfort and delight in the companionship of animals, the miracle of birds, the colours of the corals and the majesty of the forests. We are in it together, on this blue spinning marble in the cold and silent void. And we must act on that belief, if we are going to be able to continue to live a good life here, in this beautiful and fragile country, on this lovely planet, our only home.

  Geraldine Brooks

  Beautiful, Country, Good Life

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• Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species and upsets the balance of nature. The consumer ethic not only defiles the environment by creating undesirable change in the biosphere but also corrupts the mind and body by defining pleasure in terms of ownership and absorption. Waste itself is a human concept; everything in nature is eventually used. If human beings carry on in their present ways, they will one day be recycled along with the dinosaurs.

  Peter Marshall

  Inspiring, Creating, Upset

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• Life is a continuous flux. Our nonhuman ancestors bred, generation after generation, and incrementally begat what we now deem to be the species homo sapiens - ourselves. There is nothing about our ancestral line or about our current biology that dictates how we will evolve in the future. Nothing in the natural order demands that our descendants resemble us in any particular way. Very likely, they will not resemble us. We will almost certainly transform ourselves, likely beyond recognition, in the generations to come.

  Sam Harris

  Life, Order, Demand

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• Both ground- rents and the ordinary rent of land are a species of revenue which the owner, in many cases, enjoys without any care or attention of his own. The annual produce of the land and labour of the society, the real wealth and revenue of the great body of the people, might be the same after such a tax as before. Ground-rents, and the ordinary rent of land are, therefore, perhaps the species of revenue which can best bear to have a peculiar tax imposed upon them.

  Adam Smith

  Real, Land, People

  Adam Smith (1869). “An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations, Volume 2”, p.437

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• The point of sloths is to bring a sense of wonder, magic, and happiness to all other species. Did you know that every other animal's favorite animal is the sloth?

  Ann Burton

  Animal, Magic, Sloth

  Source: www.buzzfeed.com

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