Species Quotes
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If we assume, very conservatively, that there are two million species in the tropical rainforests, this means that something like five thousand species are being lost each year. This comes to roughly fourteen species a day, or one every hundred minutes.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.
Rick Yancey
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This particular species, though, had never been seen before; indeed, it was so unusual that an entire genus had to be created to accommodate it. It was named Batrachochytrium dendrobatidis—batrachos is Greek for “frog”—or Bd for short.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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“We may well be the only species on Earth to actively deprive our own kind from inhabiting a space when it is available.”
Ziya Tong
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Each species on our planet plays a role in the healthy functioning of natural ecosystems, on which humans depend.
William H. Schlesinger
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We are a hopeful species. Working with trauma is as much about remembering how we survived as it is about what is broken.
Bessel van der Kolk
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As the snail's world grew more familiar, my own human world became less so; my species was so large, so rushed, and so confusing.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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My trust is solely in God. And I trust men only because I trust God. If I had no God to rely upon, I should be like Timon, a hater of my species.
Mahatma Gandhi
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Felt great, free, abandoned, a different, improved, perfected specimen of a different, improved, perfected species. It was wild! It was beautiful! It really was.
Beatrice Sparks
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Knowledge has its end in itself, apart from any idea of life and propagation of the species.
Remy de Gourmont
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The dragons I would write about would not be the rather generalized, big, green things that I had read about in storybooks. What I wanted to create was a multiplicity of different dragon species, of all shapes and sizes, adapted to their environment and habitats in the same way as birds or other animals we see today.
Cressida Cowell
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Dandyism is a species of genius.
William Hazlitt
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Truth is one species of good, and not, as is usually supposed, a category distinct from good, and co-ordinate with it
William James
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The answer is: the rational faculty, the ability to conceptualize. This was a giant step in evolution, although there were evidently many intermediate species between the apes and modern humans across a period of perhaps six million years.
Edwin A. Locke
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Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.
Christopher Cokinos
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While illness keeps me always aware of my mortality, I realize that what matters most is not that I survive, nor even that my species survives, but that life itself continues to evolve. As the Holocene mass extinction rushes on, which species will be left? And what new creatures will evolve that we cannot now imagine - for what creature could ever have imagined us?
Elisabeth Tova Bailey
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Please think of me like an endangered species and just observe me quietly from far away. If you try to talk to me or touch me casually, I may get intimidated and bite you. So please be careful.
Haruki Murakami
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Living only in the present isn’t freedom. Living only in the present isn’t even human if you think about it. Humans, unlike any other animal on the planet, remember the past. We understand our nature. And we try to build on both of them. We are an aspirational species; we look to the future.
Benjamin E. Sasse
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The psychedelic species of visual beauty is something we don't see in our furniture styles and our architecture. It seems to be coming in, literally, from another dimension, and yet it is undeniably moving. It's beautiful.
Terence McKenna
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Now, through the catalytic interaction with technology, the human species is getting set to redefine itself.
Terence McKenna
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To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature.
Thomas Hardy
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All they had to do was pick off a mammoth or a giant ground sloth every so often, when the opportunity arose, and keep this up for several centuries. This would have been enough to drive the populations of slow-reproducing species first into decline and then, eventually, all the way down to zero.
Elizabeth Kolbert
