Species Quotes - Page 38

• Golden eagles don`t mate with bald eagles, deer don`t mate with antelope, gray wolves don`t mate with red wolves. Just look at domesticated animals, at mongrel dogs, and mixed breed horses, and you`ll know the Great Mystery didn`t intend them to be that way. We weakened the species and introduced disease by mixing what should be kept seperate. Among humans, intermarriage weakens the respect people have for themselves and for their traditions. It undermines clarity of spirit and mind.

  Russell Means

  Dog, Horse, Animal

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• There was a species of middle pretty who smiled at everything: happy smile, disappointed smile, you're-in-trouble smile.

  Scott Westerfeld

  Trouble, Middle, Happy Smile

  Scott Westerfeld (2010). “Pretties”, p.97, Simon and Schuster

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• The modern world is devoted to vanishing species, vanishing weather and vanishing capacity for wonder.

  Douglas Coupland

  Weather, World, Vanishing

  Douglas Coupland (2011). “The Gum Thief: A Novel”, p.87, Bloomsbury Publishing USA

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• Young man, nature is not frightening, it's people who are frightening! You just need to get to know nature and it will become friendly. This creature known as man is of course highly intelligent, he's capable of manufacturing almost anything from rumours to test-tube babies and yet he destroys two to three species every day. This is the absurdity of man.

  Gao Xingjian

  Baby, Men, Intelligent

  Gao Xingjian (2000). “Soul Mountain”

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• I think it's a shame that something as creative and vital to the nature of the human species as story-telling is largely controlled by the soulless cretins known as publishers.

  Piers Anthony

  Thinking, Creative, Stories

  Piers Anthony (2001). “How Precious Was That While”, p.87, Macmillan

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• Women have waited millions of years, growing separate as another species, with visions and priorities no man-words, no man-measurements can comprehend.

  Kate Braverman

  Men, Years, Priorities

  Kate Braverman (2011). “Palm Latitudes: A Novel”, p.36, Seven Stories Press

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• The best thing to do is to loosen my grip on my pen and let it go wandering about until it finds an entrance. There must be one – everything depends on the circumstances, a rule applicable as much to literary style as to life. Each word tugs another one along, one idea another, and that is how books, governments and revolutions are made – some even say that is how Nature created her species.

  Machado de Assis

  Book, Writing, Government

  Joaquim Maria Machado de Assis (2010). “The Devil's Church and Other Stories”, p.11, University of Texas Press

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• Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

  J. G. Ballard

  Two, Dreamer, Realizing

  J. G. Ballard (2014). “The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard”, p.104, Holt Paperbacks

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• I see no good reasons why the views given in this volume should shock the religious views of anyone.

  Charles Darwin

  Religious, Science, Views

  Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.27, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

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• Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at a level comparable to the extinction event that wiped out the dinosaurs 65 million years ago. That event was believed to have been caused by a giant asteroid. This time it is not an asteroid colliding with the Earth and wreaking havoc: it is us.

  Al Gore

  Inspirational, Cutting, Loss

  Al Gore (2006). “An Inconvenient Truth: The Planetary Emergency of Global Warming and What We Can Do About It”, p.10, Rodale

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• Kat laughed. 'Who wants to live forever?' Kish put his hand up. 'For the record, I do.' Sin scowled at him. 'Then why do you irritate me so often?' Suicidal tendencies are inherent in my species?

  Sherrilyn Kenyon

  Suicidal, Hands, Forever

  Sherrilyn Kenyon (2007). “Devil May Cry: A Dark-Hunter Novel”, p.314, Macmillan

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• Cosmology is among the oldest subjects to captivate our species. And it’s no wonder. We’re storytellers, and what could be more grand than the story of creation?

  Brian Greene

  Stories, Wonder, Creation

  Brian Greene (2007). “The Fabric of the Cosmos: Space, Time, and the Texture of Reality”, p.14, Vintage

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• At the moment our human world is based on the suffering and destruction of millions of non-humans. To perceive this and to do something to change it in personal and public ways is to undergo a change of perception akin to a religious conversion. Nothing can ever be seen in quite the same way again because once you have admitted the terror and pain of other species you will, unless you resist conversion, be always aware of the endless permutations of suffering that support our society.

  Arthur Conan Doyle

  Religious, Pain, Support

  Attributed to Arthur Conan Doyle in "The Face on Your Plate: The Truth About Food" by Jeffrey Moussaieff Masson, 2009.

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• We are a species that needs and wants to understand who we are. Sheep lice do not seem to share this longing, which is one reason why they write so little.

  Anne Lamott

  Writing, Sheep, Needs

  Anne Lamott (2007). “Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life”, p.3, Anchor

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• We will now discuss in a little more detail the Struggle for Existence.

  Charles Darwin

  Struggle, Science, Survival

  On the Origin of Species ch. 3 (1859) See Malthus 2

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• For our own species, evolution occurs mostly through our behavior. We innovate new behavior to adapt.

  Michael Crichton

  Evolution, Behavior

  Michael Crichton (1997). “The Lost World”, Knopf

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• Man is the only animal that deals in that atrocity of atrocities War. He is the only one that gathers his brethren about him and goes forth in cold blood and calm pulse to exterminate his kind. He is the only animal that for sordid wages will march out... and help to slaughter strangers of his own species who have done him no harm and with whom he has no quarrel.... And in the intervals between campaigns he washes the blood off his hands and works for the universal brotherhood of man with his mouth.

  Mark Twain

  Peace, War, Passion

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• I recommend you stick to your own species, Shy Babe." p. 155

  James Patterson

  Shy, Sticks, Babe

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• There are some few people I respect and admire, but I don't think much of the species.

  Mark Twain

  Thinking, People, Admire

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• Paper money has had the effect in your State that it ever will have, to ruin commerce, oppress the honest, and open a door to every species of fraud and injustice.

  George Washington

  Doors, Paper, Ruins

  "The writings of George Washington from the original manuscript sources, 1745-1799".

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• Little by little, in telling Sam all these details, I got to see the bigger point of baseball, that it can give us back ourselves. We’re a crowd animal, a highly gregarious, communicative species, but the culture and the age and all the fear that fills our days have put almost everyone into little boxes, each of us all alone. But baseball, if we love it, gives us back our place in the crowd. It restores us.

  Anne Lamott

  Baseball, Animal, Giving

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• As a species, we have evolved to survive. And the way we do it is by straining and straining and, at last, every few generaitons, giving brith to genius. The one who invents the wheel. And light. And flight. The one who builds a city, a nation, an empire...I'll put it bluntly. Human beings are free excpet when humanity needs them. Maybe humanity needs you. To do something. Maybe humanity needs me - to find out what you're good for.

  Orson Scott Card

  Light, Cities, Giving

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• As a species we're fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion?

  Stephen King

  Dream, Halloween, Thinking

  "The Mist". www.imdb.com. 2007.

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• I declare that The Beatles are mutants. Prototypes of evolutionary agents sent by God, endowed with a mysterious power to create a new human species, a young race of laughing freemen.

  Timothy Leary

  Race, Laughing, Mutants

  "Shout!: The True Story of the Beatles". Book by Philip Norman, p. 365, 1981.

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• It is for this reason that rationality is of supreme importance to the well-being of the human species...even more, in those less fortunate times in which it is despised and rejected as the vain dream of men who lack the virility to kill where they cannot agree.

  Bertrand Russell

  Dream, Men, Reason

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