Mammals Quotes

• If we mammals don't get something to eat every day or two, our temperature drops, all our signs fall off, and we begin to starve. Living at biological red alert, it's not surprising how obsessed we are with food; I'm just amazed we don't pace and fret about it all the time.

  

  Diane Ackerman
  • Fall
  • Hunger
  • Obsessed

• The human species is no more unsuited to give birth than any other of the 5,000 or so species of mammals on the planet. We are merely the most confused.

  

  Ina May Gaskin
  • Planet
  • Human Species
  • Mammals

• Plus as she put it, Prince Eric was far too hairy and peach colored for her taste. I always thought he was pretty hott, but then again, I am a mammal.

  

  Kiersten White
  • Taste
  • Plus
  • Peaches

• Man is a sad mammal that combs its hair.

  

  Cees Nooteboom
  • Hair
  • Mammals
  • Combs

• The only clear thing is that we humans are the only species with the power to destroy the earth as we know it. The birds have no such power, nor do the insects, nor does any mammal. Yet if we have the capacity to destroy the earth, so, too, do we have the capacity to protect it.

  

  Dalai Lama
  • Power
  • Earth
  • Bird

• One week ago I said that cloning of mammals was years away... it is fun to be alive at this point in history.

  

  Anders Sandberg
  • Fun
  • Week
  • Alive

• Woman's reproductive organs are far older than man's and far more highly evolved. Even in the lowest mammals, as well as in woman, the ovaries, uterus, vagina, etc., are similar, indicating that the female reproductive system was one of the first things perfected by nature. On the other hand, the male reproductive organs, the testicles and the penis, vary as much among species and through the course of evolution as does the shape of the foot — from hoof to paw. Apparently, then, the male penis evolved to suit the vagina, not the vagina to suit the penis.

  

  Elizabeth Gould Davis
  • Women
  • Evolution
  • Reproductive

• I feel certain that the largest part of all photographs ever taken or being taken or ever to be taken, is and will continue to be, portraits. This is not only true, it is also necessary. We are not solitary mammals, like the elephant, the whale and the ape. What is most profoundly felt between us, even if hidden, will reappear in our portraits of one another.

  

  Ben Maddow
  • Photographs
  • Portraits
  • Mammals

• Where else is fatness at a premium? The answer is clear. There are two classes of mammals which are liable to accumulate large quantities of adipose tissue - hibernating mammals and aquatic mammals.

  

  Elaine Morgan
  • Tissue
  • Mammals
  • Quantities

• The goal is not just butterfly collecting or mammal collecting to simply describe mammals. All of that comparative work across mammals is about informing the human genome for medicine. Until we actually understand all the working parts within our genome, we won't really be able to practice the most informed medicine.

  

  Eric Lander
  • Practice
  • Goal
  • Medicine

• It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a quarter of all mammals, a fifth of all reptiles, and a sixth of all birds are headed toward oblivion. The losses are occurring all over: in the South Pacific and in the North Atlantic, in the Arctic and the Sahel, in lakes and on islands, on mountaintops and in valleys.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Birds
  • Oblivion
  • Mountain Tops

• Over millions of years the viruses in our genome mutate more and more so the look less and less and less recognizable as viruses and so if there was a virus that infected our pre mammal ancestors like 250 million years ago, which it probably did, we can't see it because it just looks totally random.

  

  Carl Zimmer
  • Looks
  • Ancestor
  • Mammals