Species Quotes - Page 27

• The various processes of belief acquisition which are native to a species include ones which may allow for the reliable pick-up of information, which, in turn, allows individual members of the species to successfully negotiate their environment and satisfy their various desires.

  Hilary Kornblith

  Desire, Acquisition, May

  Source: www.3ammagazine.com

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• Once the high priests and the traders took over, we were lost as a species.

  George Carlin

  Lost, Traders, Priests

  "Mourning George Carlin, Our Best BS Detector" by Matthew Rothschild, www.sharedhost.progressive.org. June 23, 2008.

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• My own guess is that quite quickly the machine intelligence will start dreaming machine dreams and thinking machine thoughts, both of which would totally incomprehensible to us. This would then lead to each species, we and the machines, moving off on to its own separate life trajectory.

  John L. Casti

  Dream, Moving, Thinking

  "What If Everything Went Straight to Hell?". Interview with Austin Allen, bigthink.com.

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• Today, our incentives aren't set up well - you can make a lot of money burning fossil fuels, digging up wetlands, pumping fossil water out of aquifers that will take 10,000 years to recharge, overfishing species in international waters that are close to collapse, and so on.

  Ramez Naam

  Aquifers, Years, Water

  "Q&A with Ramez Naam: Dialogues on the Environment". Interview with Mark Tercek, bigthink.com.

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• When a child is starving, a family may not be able to think about long-term sustainability or damage to ecosystems that support endangered species.

  Helene D. Gayle

  Children, Thinking, Ecosystems

  Source: bigthink.com

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• It's very interesting to think about the distinction with mind, which I just made in very general terms, but it can be made more profound when we think that there are many species, many creatures on earth that are very likely to have a mind, but are very unlikely to have a consciousness in the sense that you and I have.

  Antonio Damasio

  Thinking, Profound, Interesting

  Interview with David Hirschman, bigthink.com. August 10, 2010.

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• We may smile and the dog may wag the tail, but in essence, we have a set program and those programs are similar across individuals in the species.

  Antonio Damasio

  Dog, Essence, Wags

  Big Think interview, bigthink.com.

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• There is a relative order to the fossilized species of plants found in the geologic record for which Flood Geology cannot account, unless you can imagine apple and orange trees with Nike sneakers on their roots, racing past the magnolias and primitive mammals, leaving the ginkgoes back there with the dinosaurs when the Flood waters began to rise.

  Frank Zindler

  Nike, Past, Order

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• I had nixed the idea of having children when I was myself a child, having learned in the 1960s that human overpopulation was literally crowding other species off the planet. Why create another mouth to gnaw at the overburdened earth?

  Sy Montgomery

  Nature, Children, Animal

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• It was not that I disliked people; some of them were interesting and kind. But even the nice ones were no more compelling or important to me than other creatures. Then, as now, to me humans are but one species among billions of other equally vivid and thrilling lives. I was never drawn to other children simply because they were human. Humans seemed to me a rather bullying species, and I was on the side of the underdog.

  Sy Montgomery

  Bullying, Nature, Children

  Sy Montgomery (2006). “The Good Good Pig: The Extraordinary Life of Christopher Hogwood”, p.20, Ballantine Books

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• Despite one or two minority appeals our society is not outraged at man's unremitting use of the animal world. Ecologists and environmentalists may talk of "ecological consciousness" or "environmental responsibility" but seldom, if ever, is this responsibility articulated towards other non-human species in particular.

  Andrew Linzey

  Nature, Responsibility, Men

  Andrew Linzey (1976). “Animal rights: a Christian assessment of man's treatment of animals”, SCM Press

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• The first command given by God when Adam and Eve were pitched out of the Garden of Eden in the Book of Genesis is, "Be fruitful and multiply, and subdue the Earth." We've been trying to do that for a long time, and now the Earth is fighting back. I'm not sure that we're going to survive as a species.

  John Shelby Spong

  Book, Fighting, Garden

  Source: mormon-chronicles.blogspot.com

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• And so in 1975, the grizzly bear was put on, as I said - on the endangered species list as threatened. And new measures were taken, for instance, bear-proofing garbage, creating new regulations to - essentially to try and keep people and people's food away from the bears, let the bears adjust to eating the abundant wild food that's available in Yellowstone and allow them to be more wild, to be independent of humans as sources of foods for the good of both sides. And that has been quite successful.

  David Quammen

  Taken, Independent, Successful

  "Is Yellowstone National Park In Danger Of Being 'Loved To Death'?". "Fresh Air" with David Bianculli, www.npr.org. June 10, 2016.

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• My feeling is that if any Republican was elected it would be almost a death knell for the species literally, just because of their attitude on climate change.

  Noam Chomsky

  Attitude, Feelings, Climate

  "Anti-Intellectualism, Terrorism, and Elections in Contemporary Education: a Discussion with Noam Chomsky". Interview with Dan Falcone, www.counterpunch.org. June 3, 2016.

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• My favorite species to study would be Cobras and King Cobras which are two different families. They're very intelligent, and they're beautiful looking animals. Where they come from are countries and regions which I spend a lot of time in - South East Asia and India, those are places I go to fairly often, and so the cobras are my main interest. It's not a snake I can maintain, but when I see them in zoos and what not, I find them interesting.

  Henry Rollins

  Beautiful, Country, Kings

  "Henry Rollins and a Whole Lot of Snakes". Interview with Jeff Jetton, brightestyoungthings.com. April 29, 2011.

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• My biggest concern and main engagement with UNEP is focused on endangered species and illegal wildlife trade - mostly elephants, rhinos, etc.

  Yaya Toure

  Rhinos, Elephants, Etc

  "Interview with International Football Star Yaya Touré". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• Currently poaching threatens the very existence of the African Elephant, and my worry is that if we do not act NOW, we could be looking at a future in which this iconic species is wiped out.

  Yaya Toure

  Elephants, Worry, Poaching

  "Interview with International Football Star Yaya Touré". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. May 1, 2014.

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• The illegal wildlife trade threatens not only the survival of entire species, such as elephants and rhinos, but also the livelihoods and, often, the very lives of millions of people across Africa who depend on tourism for a living.

  Yaya Toure

  Elephants, Rhinos, People

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• Milk is for babies. Human beings are the only species that drinks milk into adulthood and besides that we prefer to drink the milk of another species (enslaved cows and goats), and we have come to consider it normal when, it is actually a pretty perverse form of sexual abuse!

  Sharon Gannon

  Baby, Drink Milk, Abuse

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• It has been an obsession of human beings to create a hierarchy that places the human species on top and lumps all the "other animals" together beneath us. The resulting "speciesism" allows us to look upon animals as less deserving of all manner of rights and considerations than humans. To support this lower status, humans have argued that animals act instinctually; don't have souls; don't feel physical pain like we do; and lack self-consciousness, cognitive intelligence, emotional feelings, morality, and ethics.

  Sharon Gannon

  Pain, Animal, Emotional

  "Sharon Gannon on Veganism". jivamuktiyoga.com. November 16, 2016.

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• Virtually every advancement made by our species since civilization first peeked out of its nest of stone has been initiated by lone individuals, mavericks who more often than not were ignored, mocked, or viciously persecuted by society and its institutions.

  Tom Robbins

  Civilization, Advancement, Nests

  "The Syntax of Sorcery: An Interview with Tom Robbins". Interview with Tony Vigorito, realitysandwich.com. June 6, 2012.

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• Ours is not a dumb species. We have put a man on the moon. We have unlocked the secrets of the human genome. We have discovered how to take stem cells and coax them into becoming brain cells, heart muscle, liver tissue - any organ of the human body that needs repair. These are our miracles, and there are more. Yet we have not yet found a way to do the simplest things: To live in peace. To stop killing each other when we disagree. To distribute that which is good in life freely and fairly.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Heart, Moon, Men

  "A Revolution Is What's Called For Here" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• We are the only animals who steal and drink the milk from other species.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Milk, Drink

  "Ask Sharon Gannon about Yoga & Veganism: Holy Cow!". ORIGIN MAgazine Interveiw, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• As far as we know, as a species, the only reason we were put on this planet is to help continue life.

  Allen Evangelista

  Helping, Reason, Planets

  "Allen Evangelista – Project Almanac Actor: Maintaining Perspective". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• It is a fact that the ecological devastation of the planet can be traced to the consumption of meat and dairy, which contributes to water, soil, and air pollution as well as global warming and the mass extinction of many species of plant and animal forms.

  Sharon Gannon

  Animal, Air, Mass Extinction

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