Quotes of: Endangered-species Keyword

Our species is on the verge of changes that will fundamentally alter what it means to be human... and we are the people driving that change.

Daniel Keys Moran

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people incon...

David Suzuki

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.

Lynn Margulis

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

There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.

Noam Chomsky

We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.

Gaylord Nelson

He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.

George Gaylord Simpson

I have heard endlessly that fish are so resilient that there is no way that you could exterminate a species. We are learning otherwise.

Sylvia Earle

Each person is an idiom unto himself, an apparent violation of the syntax of the species.

Gordon W. Allport

Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

J.G. Ballard

We are a dreadful species indeed, and deserve whatever it is our techno-baubles do to us.

Douglas Coupland

I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.'

David S. Goyer

Evolution requires intermediate forms between species and palaeontology does not provide them.

David Kitts

I've always been anti-marriage for men until they become mature. As a species we don't mature until we're in our 60s.

Gene Simmons

The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.

Antoinette Brown Blackwell

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

Buzz Aldrin

Beauty of trees is not judged by shape, size and species, then why ours?

Vinita Kinra

The gene contains a single 'word', repeated over and over again: CAG, CAG, CAG, CAG ... The repetition continues sometimes just six times, sometimes thirty, sometimes more than a hundred times. Your destiny, your sanity and your life hang by the thre...

Genome: the Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

It was in the attempt to ascertain the interrelationships between species that experiments n genetics were first made. The words "evolution" and "origin of species" are now so intimately associated with the name of Darwin that we are apt to forger th...

Mendel's Principles of Heredity

No group-living nonhuman primate is monogamous, and adultery has been documented in every human culture studied- including those in which fornicators are routinely stoned to death. In light of all of this bloody retribution, it's hard to see how mono...

Sex at Dawn: The Prehistoric Origins of Modern Sexuality

Without death there is little innovation. Extinction - death of a species - is part and parcel of evolutionary change. In the absence of this kind of extinction new developments would not prosper. In our own history, periods when ideas have been perp...

Trilobite: Eyewitness to Evolution