104 Quotes About Species
- Author Abhijit Naskar
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Your actions are not simply the actions of a human - but the actions of a civilization – the actions of a species, in the path of collective human progress.
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- Author Steven Magee
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Politicians are in the process of committing species extinction in honor of their corporate sponsors and the general public are along for the sickening ride.
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- Author Lewis Thomas
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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 learning to use the brand-new gift of language. Being so young, we can be excused all sorts of folly and can permit ourselves the hope that someday, as a species, we will begin to grow up.
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- Author Mehmet Murat ildan
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Darkness is always afraid of the positive thoughts, because they are also a species of light!
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- Author J. Budziszewski
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Besides, morality is not about whether the human race survives, but about what kind of survival it gets. We marry; guppies don't. We don't eat our young; they do. Yet neither species is in danger of extinction.
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- Author Rasheed Ogunlaru
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Despite all our amazing ability, ingenuity, technology and industry humans are the one species who have not mastered the art of simplicity.
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- Author Eliezer Yudkowsky
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Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.
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- Author Robin Wall Kimmerer
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Philosophers call this state of isolation and disconnection “species loneliness”—a deep, unnamed sadness stemming from estrangement from the rest of Creation, from the loss of relationship. As our human dominance of the world has grown, we have become more isolated, more lonely when we can no longer call out to our neighbors. It’s no wonder that naming was the first job the Creator gave Nanabozho.
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- Author Craig Childs
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This much scientists agree on: Five times in the history of the earth, most life has winked out. Five times, one species after the next disappeared, the chain collapsed, grazers died as the plants they depended on were lost, and predators disappeared shortly after, life on earth reaching as close to zero as you'd ever care to get.
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