Species Quotes - Page 33

• I've had a love of animals from birth. I love getting to know other species. We should all be aware that there is not one thing we can give a wild animal in captivity that they need.

  Tippi Hedren

  Animal, Giving, Captivity

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• One has children in the expectation of dying before them. In fact, you want to make damn sure you die before them, just as you plant a tree or build a house knowing, hoping that it will outlive you. That's how the human species has done as well as it has.

  Christopher Hitchens

  Children, Knowing, Expectations

  "British writer Christopher Hitchens dies". "PM", www.abc.net.au. December 16, 2011.

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• The fidelity question is difficult for me. Society has made us believe we're supposed to be monogamous when we're not killer whales, or whatever the monogamous species is.

  Rachel Hunter

  Believe, Whales, Killers

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• 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

  Struggle, Science, Thinking

  Thomas Henry Huxley (2011). “Collected Essays”, p.229, Cambridge University Press

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• Herein lies our problem. If we level that much land to grow rice and whatever, then no other animal could live there except for some insect pest species. Which is very unfortunate.

  Steve Irwin

  Lying, Animal, Land

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• Take the crocodile, for example, my favorite animal. There are 23 species. Seventeen of those species are rare or endangered. They're on the way out, no matter what anyone does or says, you know.

  Steve Irwin

  Animal, Doe, Matter

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• A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.

  Thomas Jefferson

  Being Strong, Nature, Character

  Quoted in Colin Jarman The Guinness Dictionary of Sports Quotations (1990).

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• There are minds so impatient of inferiority that their gratitude is a species of revenge, and they return benefits, not because recompense is a pleasure, but because obligation is a pain.

  Samuel Johnson

  Gratitude, Pain, Revenge

  'The Rambler' no. 87 (15 January 1751)

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• A cockroach likely has no less brainpower than a butterfly, but we're quicker to deny it consciousness because it's a species we dislike.

  Jeffrey Kluger

  Butterfly, Cockroaches, Consciousness

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• The human species, according to the best theory I can form of it, is composed of two distinct races, the men who borrow and the men who lend.

  Charles Lamb

  Men, Race, Two

  'Essays of Elia' (1823) 'The Two Races of Men'

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• All species capable of grasping this fact manage better in the struggle for existence than those which rely upon their own strength alone: the wolf, which hunts in a pack, has a greater chance of survival than the lion, which hunts alone.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Struggle, Rely Upon, Survival

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• Concord, solidarity, and mutual help are the most important means of enabling animal species to survive.

  Christian Lous Lange

  Mean, Animal, Mutual Help

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• In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them.

  Aldo Leopold

  Anniversary, Nature, Spring

  Aldo Leopold, Michael Sewell (2001). “A Sand County Almanac”, p.82, Oxford University Press

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• The reproduction of mankind is a great marvel and mystery. Had God consulted me in the matter, I should have advised him to continue the generation of the species by fashioning them out of clay.

  Martin Luther

  Sex, Science, Should Have

  Table Talk 'Of Marriage and Celibacy'

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• Listen, you know this: If there's not a rebellious youth culture, there's no culture at all. It's absolutely essential. It is the future. This is what we're supposed to do as a species, is advance ideas.

  John Lydon

  Ideas, Essentials, Culture

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• 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

  Reading, Class, Amusement

  James Madison, Ralph Ketcham “Selected Writings of James Madison”, Hackett Publishing

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• 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

  Philosophy, Distance, Medicine

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.123, Aeterna Press

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• 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

  Essence, May, Problem

  Moses Maimonides (2016). “Guide for the perplexed”, p.297, Moses Maimonides

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• Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference?

  Chris Martin

  Horse, Trying, Albums

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• The notion that the species can be improved in some way, that everyone could live in harmony, is a really dangerous idea. Those who are afflicted with this notion are the first ones to give up their souls, their freedom. Your desire that it be that way will enslave you and make your life vacuous.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Giving Up, Ideas, Soul

  "Cormac McCarthy's Venomous Fiction" by Richard B. Woodward, archive.nytimes.com. April 19, 1992.

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• Every decently-made object, from a house to a lamp post to a bridge, spoon or egg cup, is not just a piece of 'stuff' but a physical embodiment of human energy, testimony to the magical ability of our species to take raw materials and turn them into things of use, value and beauty.

  Kevin McCloud

  Beauty, Beautiful, Philosophy

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• A dog is a vehicle, you know, a dog is a window to Mother Nature and that's the closest species we have.

  Cesar Millan

  Mother, Dog, Window

  "Cesar Millan: Changing The World One Dog Owner At A Time". Interview with Jeff Witzeman, www.huffingtonpost.com. March 27, 2010.

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• My heart is broken in the face of the stupidity of my species.

  Joni Mitchell

  Heart, Broken, Stupidity

  "Working Three Shifts, and Outrage Overtime" by David Yaffe, www.nytimes.com. February 4, 2007.

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• Greed has been with human beings forever. We have a number of things in our species that you would call 'the dark side,' and greed is one of them. If you don't put certain structures in place or restrictions on those parts of our being that come from that dark place, then it gets out of control.

  Michael Moore

  Dark, Numbers, Greed

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• This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.

  Desmond Morris

  Successful, Fundamentals, Unusual

  Desmond Morris (1986). “The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal”, Crown Pub

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