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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

  Thinking, Trying, May

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• A man reserves his true and deepest love not for the species of woman in whose company he finds himself electrified and enkindled, but for that one in whose company he may feel tenderly drowsy.

  George Jean Nathan

  Love, Witty, Men

  George Jean Nathan, Charles Angoff (1998). “The World of George Jean Nathan: Essays, Reviews, & Commentary”, Hal Leonard Corporation

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• Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species.

  Friedrich Nietzsche

  Life, Opposites, Existentialism

  Friedrich Nietzsche (2003). “A Nietzsche Reader”, p.250, Penguin UK

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• If you want to save a species, simply decide to eat it. Then it will be managed - like chickens, like turkeys, like deer, like Canadian geese.

  Ted Nugent

  Funny Thanksgiving, Turkeys, Want

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• I read five books on the Constitution. My favorite was 'Plain, Honest Men' by Richard Beeman. I went on a science jag in the same way. I kept getting in arguments about evolution and being bested. So I read Charles Darwin's 'On the Origin of the Species,' a fantastic book that is not that difficult.

  Denis O'Hare

  Book, Men, Way

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• Homo sapiens is the species that invents symbols in which to invest passion and authority, then forgets that symbols are inventions.

  Joyce Carol Oates

  Passion, Humility, Atheism

  "Invented symbols". www.nytimes.com. January 05, 2006.

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• We do a lot of bird-watching up in the country, but we almost never have a chance to people-watch. There simply aren't enough human beings up here: there is nowhere you can park yourself with a cup of coffee and observe the species on parade.

  Susan Orlean

  Country, Coffee, People

  "On the Wing" by Susan Orlean, www.newyorker.com. February 8, 2011.

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• Is it not a species of blasphemy to call the New Testament revealed religion, when we see in it such contradictions and absurdities.

  Thomas Paine

  Contradiction, New Testament, Absurdity

  Thomas Paine (1826). “An examination of the passages in the New Testament quoted from the Old and called prophecies concerning Jesus Christ. To which is prefixed, An essay on dreams. Also an appendix”, p.34

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• We'll all die out eventually. Humans will be gone. And all I'm saying is, when people worry about polar bears disappearing or whatever, it's like, well that's life, things will come and go, we'll find new species...

  Karl Pilkington

  People, Worry, Bears

  "Karl Pilkington On 'An Idiot Abroad,' Endangered Animals & Ricky Gervais (VIDEO)". Interview with Jordan Zakarin, www.huffingtonpost.com. January 20, 2012.

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• Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees.

  Marcel Proust

  Dark, Tree, Soul

  Marcel Proust (1957). “Pleasures and days: and other writings”

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• An original is a creation motivated by desire. Any reproduction of an originals motivated be necessity. It is marvelous that we are the only species that creates gratuitous forms. To create is divine, to reproduce is human.

  Man Ray

  Creativity, Desire, Creation

  Man Ray (1973). “Opera grafica”

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• Already at the origin of the species man was equal to what he was destined to become.

  Jean Rostand

  Destiny, Men, Equal

  Jean Rostand (1959). “Can Man be Modified?”

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• Look at history. It's not the account of a species at peace.

  Salman Rushdie

  Looks, Accounts

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• Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.

  Carl Sagan

  Education, Atheist, Thinking

  Carl Sagan (2011). “Demon-Haunted World: Science as a Candle in the Dark”, p.430, Ballantine Books

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• For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice.

  Erwin Schrodinger

  Animal, Community, Vices

  Erwin Schrodinger (2012). “What is Life?: With Mind and Matter and Autobiographical Sketches”, p.101, Cambridge University Press

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• Sending Paris Hilton to jail for being the most loathed celeprosy lesion in the history of the species seems like a happening idea at first - forty-five days at Century Regional Detention Center is so the new thirty days at Promises Malibu! But it sets a dangerous precedent to jail celebs just because someone hates them.

  Rob Sheffield

  Hate, Ideas, Paris

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• A man, to be greatly good, must imagine intensely and comprehensively; he must put himself in the place of another and of many others; the pains and pleasures of his species must become his own.

  Percy Bysshe Shelley

  Pain, Men, Imagine

  Percy Bysshe Shelley (1994). “The Selected Poetry and Prose of Shelley”, p.642, Wordsworth Editions

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• I readily admit it is easy to make of horses what we will. Silent, in some ways reserved, they allow us to train them, and to project our ideas upon them; to ride and drive them, and to make them symbolic, perhaps to a greater degree than any other species.

  Jane Smiley

  Horse, Ideas, Degrees

  Jane Smiley (2014). “A Year at the Races: Reflections on Horses, Humans, Love, Money and Luck”, p.7, Faber & Faber

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• I am a closet birdwatcher. I can identify Southern African species, but it irks me I can barely tell a jay from a blackbird in the U.K.

  Wilbur Smith

  Southern, Closets, Blackbirds

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• Species conversation is beyond a doubt an issue that truly matters to the American public.

  Ian Somerhalder

  Issues, Doubt, Matter

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• Al Gore is not just whistling in the wind. Global warming is for real. Every scientist knows that now, and we are on our way to the destruction of every species on earth, if we don't pay attention and reverse our course.

  Theodore C. Sorensen

  Real, Wind, Attention

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• Nature is indifferent to the survival of the human species, including Americans.

  Adlai E. Stevenson

  Nature, Survival, Indifferent

  Radio address, September 29, 1952.

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• Planting native species in our gardens and communities is increasingly important, because indigenous insects, birds and wildlife rely on them. Over thousands, and sometimes millions, of years they have co-evolved to live in local climate and soil conditions.

  David Suzuki

  Garden, Years, Community

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• Ultimately we need to recognize that while humans continue to build urban landscapes, we share these spaces with others species.

  David Suzuki

  Space, Needs, Landscape

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• Humans are an infant species, a mere 150,000 years old. But, armed with a massive brain, we've not only survived, we've used our wits to adapt to and flourish in habitats as varied as deserts, Arctic tundra, tropical rainforests, wetlands and high mountain ranges.

  David Suzuki

  Mountain Ranges, Years, Brain

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