The reason we form networks is because the benefits of a connected life outweigh the costs. It's to our advantage as individuals and a species to assemble ourselves in this fashion.
A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.
We don't need to clear the 4 to 6 percent of the Earth's surface remaining in tropical rain forests, with most of the animal and plant species living there.
I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.
She was an alien, really - a sort of eating, pooping, tantrum machine - and he didn't understand anything about her species.
Travelling through the breeding places of our species is far from being as interesting to me as it is to inspect the breeding places of the feathery tribes of our country.
If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place.
Humans are more dependent on learning for survival than other species,We have no instincts that automatically find us food and shelter !
So much of the habitat destruction and pollution is based on the simple principle that we somehow have been given free license over other species to degrade the planet.
The thought that we're in competition with Russians or with Chinese is all a mistake, and trivial. We are one species, with a world to win.
The word 'love,' used in connection with the reproduction of our species, is the most odious blasphemy taught in our times.
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.
The peasant is the only species of human being who doesn't like the country and never looks at it.
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.
You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day.
Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
A mutt is a dog. He is the stuff of dogginess, a creature allied to species, not breed, and untrammeled by human hand or preference.
A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.
Until men learn to celebrate and operate on the feminine aspect of themselves and stop the oppression of women, children, the environment, other species, we don't have a world to live in. It's not a world that anyone chooses to live in.
It would seem to me that by the time a race has achieved deep space capability it would have matured to a point where it would have no thought of dominating another intelligent species.
