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Indeed, the whole human species is endangered, by nuclear weapons or by other means of wholesale destruction which further advances in science are likely to produce. - Joseph Rotblat Quotes
Eurasia ended up with the most domesticated animal species in part because its the worlds largest land mass and offered the most wild species to begin with. - Jared Diamond Quotes
Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time. - Edward Forbes Quotes
The relation of the individual person to the species he belongs to is the most intimate of all relations. - Havelock Ellis Quotes
If its true that our species is alone in the universe, then Id have to say that the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. - George Carlin Quotes
Thousands of years ago, humans domesticated every possible large wild mammal species fulfilling all those criteria and worth domesticating, with the result that there have been no valuable additions of domestic animals in recent times, despite the efforts of modern science. - Jared Diamond Quotes
There is only one valid species of voyage, which is walk towards the men. - Ella Maillart Quotes
The non-native species that invade our waters are one of the greatest threats facing the health and viability of our regions lakes and waterways. - John M Mchugh Quotes
Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes. - James Madison Quotes
A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine. - Robert Fortune Quotes
It is thus necessary to examine all things according to their essence, to infer from every species such true and well established propositions as may assist us in the solution of metaphysical problems. - Maimonides Quotes
The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us. - E O Wilson Quotes
We wonder why we have got the Freemen or the militants. We wonder why we have got unrest in this country. It is because our government, in fact, has got out of hand and out of line, with the Endangered Species Act. - Don Young Quotes
Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords. - William Samuel Johnson Quotes
How individuals of the same species surpass each other in these sensations and in other bodily faculties is universally known, but there is a limit to them, and their power cannot extend to every distance or to every degree. - Maimonides Quotes
It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat. - Jim Saxton Quotes
The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. - Freeman Dyson Quotes
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it. - Larry Niven Quotes
Were the only species that have crapped up the planet and the only species that can clean it up. - Dennis Weaver Quotes
The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future. - Joseph Needham Quotes
The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same number. Consequently, when the sperm unites with the egg, the fertilized egg will contain the double number of chromosomes. - Thomas Hunt Morgan Quotes
On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. - Charles Darwin Quotes
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because theres a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants. - David Attenborough Quotes
The Endangered Species Act (ESA) was originally enacted in 1973 with the primary function being recovery of endangered and threatened species. - Greg Walden Quotes
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works. - Carl Sagan Quotes
The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. - Thomas Huxley Quotes
Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases. - Robert T Bakker Quotes
For the female of the species is more deadly than the male. - Rudyard Kipling Quotes
In fact, aquatic invasive species are now only second to habitat loss when it comes to the most serious threats facing endangered water life. - John M Mchugh Quotes
Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions. - Joyce Carol Oates Quotes
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