Quotes of: Endangered-species Keyword

The fin whale is the second largest whale species on Earth, weighing up to 80 tons.

Pierce Brosnan

Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species.

Thomas Carlyle

We humans kill and murder every species and still we claim to be the peace lovers.

M.F. Moonzajer

One of the basic steps in saving a threatened species is to learn more about it: its diet, its mating and reproductive processes, its range patterns, its social behavior.

Dian Fossey

We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'

Levi Strauss

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future.

Joseph Needham

If our species is to survive, our future will probably require outposts beyond our own planet.

Lawrence M. Krauss

Discovering new species is a passion. A day without collecting plants is painful for me.

Corneille Ewango

It has adopted the geometry most advantageous to the species or, in other words, the most convenient.

Henri Poincare

It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection.

John Tyler Bonner

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.

J. M. Coetzee

There has always been a tendency to classify children almost as a distinct species.

Hugh Lofting

Habitats keep evolving new pageants of species, and we shouldn't interfere.

Diane Ackerman

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

Dee Hock

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

Bill Cosby

I am never interested in the individual, but in the human species and its environment.

Andreas Gursky

I was twelve. You were girls, and therefore an entirely different species.

The Falconer

Zarah, you do know that we are supposed to be a graceful species, don't you?

Through These Wicked Nights

We observe closely related species in sympatry and infer how they evolved from a common ancestor.

Peter R. Grant

I think a few hundred years from now we'll start having the 'posthuman' era of different species.

Martin Rees

Darwin abolished special creations, contributed the Origin of Species and hitched all life together in one unbroken procession.

Mark Twain