Quotes of: Endangered-species Keyword

If we just wanted positive emotions, our species would have died out a long time ago.

Martin Seligman

Trees are selfless, so all species thrive. If they were like humans, the world wouldn’t survive.

Vinita Kinra

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.

Will Carling

Suffice to say, many women find their first appearance on a comedy panel show to be their last. Second chances seem to be given less often to the female of the species.

Jo Brand

Mammals of every species indulge in play. Games are Nature's way of preparing us to face difficult realities.

Daemon

Experiments with animals have long been handicapped by our anthropocentric attitude: We often test them in ways that work fine with humans but not so well with other species.

Frans de Waal

Intolerance is a species of violence and therefore against our creed.

The Wit and Wisdom of Gandhi

If vampires were a separate species, and they were into genetic engineering, what would they engineer for?

Octavia E. Butler

Nothing has prepared sharks, squid, krill and other sea creatures for industrial-scale extraction that destroys entire ecosystems while targeting a few species.

Sylvia Earle

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

Marcel Proust

In Buddhism, we talk of meditation as an act of awakening, to be awake to the fact that the earth is in danger and living species are in danger.

Nhat Hanh

Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.

Daniel Dennett

Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.

Paulo Coelho

What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.

James Hansen

We're the only species that can look into the future and know that we're going to die one day, and it causes all sorts of cognitive stress on your system.

Jason Silva

I absolutely don't think a sentient artificial intelligence is going to wage war against the human species.

Daniel H. Wilson

Perhaps genes did regulate the aging process. Perhaps different organisms had different life spans because a universal regulatory 'clock' was set to run at different speeds in different species.

Cynthia Kenyon

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.

Richard Owen

A marine ecologist is a scientist who studies the many species that live underwater and how they interact with each other and with humans.

Enric Sala

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

Erwin Schrodinger

It's always been a dream of mine, of exploring the living world, of classifying all the species and finding out what makes up the biosphere.

E. O. Wilson