Quotes of: Endangered-species Keyword

What's with all the cheering over the apocalypse, anyway? Oh, yay, we get to kill poor helpless humans." "The excitement over the apocalypse had nothing to do with humans." "Could have fooled me." "Humans are incidental." "Killing and destroying an e...

World After

Finally, from what we now know about the cosmos, to think that all this was created for just one species among the tens of millions of species who live on one planet circling one of a couple of hundred billion stars that are located in one galaxy amo...

Why Darwin Matters: The Case Against Intelligent Design

The beauty in the genome is of course that it's so small. The human genome is only on the order of a gigabyte of data...which is a tiny little database. If you take the entire living biosphere, that's the assemblage of 20 million species or so that c...

Freeman Dyson

The superior man, when resting in safety, does not forget that danger may come. When in a state of security he does not forget the possibility of ruin. When all is orderly, he does not forget that disorder may come. Thus his person is not endangered,...

Confucian Analects, The Great Learning & The Doctrine of the Mean

It happens very often that those whom men esteem highly are more seriously endangered by their own excessive confidence. Hence, for many it is better not to be too free from temptations, but often to be tried lest they become too secure, too filled w...

The Imitation of Christ

Tree' is the title of a dance, is the cadence of a song. The black silhouette is only a moment of stillness caught by the shutter of the eye. It is finely tuned to the harmonics of the air. It loves both the sun and the wind and is let turn towards i...

One from the Sea

You have a long history," he said, when Lanya indicated her story was finished. "Ah, Harrier, were I to tell you a long story, we should be here for a sennight, perhaps more. Long stories are best saved for deep winter, when the days are short and ti...

The Phoenix Endangered

There was love, a reliable and real love grown in a handful of days, and Tristan did not know why it was: friendship had happened to both of them, on the sudden, completely aside from Tristan's both endangering and saving Crissand's life. It was no r...

C.J. Cherryh

at least a fifth of all mammalian species are bats.

Bats Sing, Mice Giggle: The Surprising Science of Animals' Inner Lives

If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little.

George Carlin

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism.

Alma Gluck

Literature itself is a species of code. You line up symbols and create a simulacrum of life.

Strange Bodies

The American girl isn't ANY girl; she's a remarkable specimen in a remarkable species.

Pandora

I feel that we have a responsibility to try to do everything we can to protect species, and the best way to do that is to uphold international conservation law.

Paul Watson

Fungi are the grand recyclers of the planet and the vanguard species in habitat restoration.

Paul Stamets

As a species, we tend to be doers, forever shaping and reshaping the world to better suit our purposes.

Mariella Frostrup

An unjust law is itself a species of violence. Arrest for its breach is more so.

Mahatma Gandhi

Man is an individual. The animals, plants and minerals are divided into species. They are not individualized in the same sense that man is.

Max Heindel

You can cut a tree down, and it grows back. Once a species goes, it's gone forever.

Mark Shand

While many alien species are harmless, others pose expensive threats to seas and fields and forests.

Nancy Gibbs

Humans are distinguished from other species by a massive brain that enables us to imagine a future and influence it by what we do in the present. By using experience, knowledge and insight, our ancestors recognized they could anticipate dangers and o...

David Suzuki