Species Quotes - Page 28

• When I speak out on corporations hurting the common man or the environment or other species, I expect a well-financed disinformation campaign to be aimed my way.

  Neil Young

  Hurt, Men, Speaks Out

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• One of the most interesting things for me in playing another species is that you want to make them different enough to be alien but have enough human qualities to be relatable. This really forces you to look at what it is to be human from a totally new perspective!

  Jaime Murray

  Interesting, Perspective, Quality

  "Jaime Murray: Taking Care of Heart, Mind, and Body". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• For conservation to succeed, we must embrace conservation models where people use their natural resources to create jobs, to grow economies, and to feed their people while protecting wildlife and Africa's iconic species.

  David Jeremiah Barron

  Jobs, People, Succeed

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• In addition to tourism, it is essential to employ other ways to benefit more from the use of natural resources than from their destruction - from wildlife breeding operations to - yes - hunting of abundant species where viable.

  David Jeremiah Barron

  Hunting, Wildlife, Tourism

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• I am really inspired when I am in an experience, at the front lines of conservation, and I see someone - a woman, a man, a child, a person - who has given up an opportunity to have a family, an opportunity for financial riches, even an opportunity for security, [to] put their whole life on the line to protect a species.

  Jeff Corwin

  Children, Men, Opportunity

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• Many scientists would argue that we are now in what is called Extinction, and it's caused by this perfect extinction storm: climate change, habitat loss, pollution, unsustainable exploitation of species and habitat resources, and of course, human population explosion. All of these factors work together and conspire to drive a species to extinction on our planet, every half an hour.

  Jeff Corwin

  Loss, Perfect, Storm

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• Many of the medicines we use today, to fight everything from AIDS to cancer, originate as a toxin in an amphibian skin. When we lose these animals, we lose resources. We lose keystone species in the environments where they live.

  Jeff Corwin

  Cancer, Fighting, Animal

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• We are the only species systematically destroying its own habitat.

  Marianne Williamson

  Habitat, Destroying

  "SISTER GIANT: Consciousness and Politics" by Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

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• For any species to change, if they are unable and are unwilling to do so - I might, for example, have suggested to the dinosaurs that heavy armor and great size was a sinking ship, and that they do well to convert to mammal facilities - it would not lie in my power or desire to reconvert a reluctant dinosaur.

  William S. Burroughs

  Lying, Desire, Might

  Source: realitystudio.org

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• I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live by the Golden Rule. This is what drives my writing. I want to point out this interconnectedness, point out the beauty of the faith in all traditions without exception, show the complexity of the atrocities that we have experienced, and our shared culpability as a species.

  Karen Armstrong

  Writing, World, Safe

  "A conversation with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• For too long we have placed an irrational burden upon our oceans by demanding only a narrow selection of species, which has led to unsustainable fishing and economic practices. If we instead ask the ocean what it is willing to supply, we engage in an inherently more sustainable relationship.

  Barton Seaver

  Ocean, Fishing, Practice

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• Our biggest challenges for the ocean and for the planet are problems of perception. People need to understand that species extinctions, habitat destruction, ocean acidification, and pollution are all chipping away at the resilience of the thin layer of life that sustains us on Spaceship Earth.

  Edith Widder

  Ocean, People, Challenges

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• Because of the nature of my life, because I train a great many people, I come upon such a huge variety of human species, as well as the earth species for that matter.

  Jean Houston

  People, Earth, Matter

  "Soul Speaking and Truth Telling: A Conversation with Jean Houston". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.awaken.com. August 23, 2013.

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• We still don't understand how the big bang and evolving all the way to the human species and so on. So all of this is going to be a very, very exciting to the new people.

  Ahmed H. Zewail

  People, Bangs, Way

  Source: www.nobelprize.org

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• We have an atmosphere that is roughly 21% oxygen. The rest of it is largely nitrogen. There's just enough carbon dioxide (CO2) to drive photosynthesis. That has been, throughout the history of our species, pretty stable. Until recently.

  Sylvia Earle

  Oxygen, Atmosphere, Nitrogen

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• I can't think of a greater legacy than, "Because you lived, another species survived."

  Paul Watson

  Thinking, Legacy, Greater

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• Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man.

  Louie Psihoyos

  Men, Mass Extinction, Age

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• Half of all species on Earth could disappear by the end of the century because of our collective impact.

  Louie Psihoyos

  Impact, Half, Earth

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• I came to the conclusion that bringing Humans to earth with an intact ability to LOVE is essential if we are to survive as a species.

  Robin Lim

  Love Is, Essentials, Earth

  "An Interview With Robin Lim | CNN Woman of The Year". Interview with Polly Armstrong, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Actually, fish are very sensitive creatures with highly developed nervous systems. They feel pain acutely. If they weren't able to feel pain, they, like us, could not have survived as a species. Their nervous systems, like ours, secrete opiate-like, pain-dampening biochemicals in response to pain.

  Sharon Gannon

  Pain, Opiates, Able

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

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• Many genetically "altered" fish escape from the confines of the crowded floating concentration camps to mingle and mate with their wild fish cousins, causing horrible and irreversible damage to wild species.

  Sharon Gannon

  Cousin, Floating, Damage

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

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• The truth is that we're at a critical juncture in the history of our species and if we don't act soon, we could inhabit a world we don't recognize anymore.

  Al Gore

  World, Truth Is, Juncture

  "Al Gore | The Most Important Truth. The Power of Your Own Voice". Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Even a casual observer can see that not one of the systems, institutions, and devices that our species has put into place on this planet to "create a better life for all" is functioning in a way that generates that outcome.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Outcomes, Way, Better Life

  "Overcoming Separation Theology. Neale Donald Walsch - Author: Conversations with God" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• I would make a difference by banning unsustainable palm oil in order to save the rainforest and orangutan habitats along with the rest of the three hundred thousand other species that live in the rainforest.

  Katie Cleary

  Order, Oil, Differences

  "Katie Cleary, President and Founder of Peace 4 Animals: Get Proactive!". Interview with Barbi Twins, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• I'm not too worried about humanity in the future. I think we've got an innate ability as a species to self-correct.

  Daniel Radcliffe

  Thinking, Self, Humanity

  "Paul Dano literally carried Daniel Radcliffe through Swiss Army Man". Interview with Matt Pais, film.avclub.com. July 7, 2016.

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