Species Quotes

Love is only a dirty trick played on us to achieve continuation of the species.

Men and women belong to different species and communications between them is still in its infancy.

But in the face of big challenges such as habitat loss, pollution of coastal zones, and species loss, and the high seas collapse of fish stocks, the whole marine realm is becoming rapidly more important.

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

Wolf reintroduction in Yellowstone has been the most popular and most environmentally justified endangered species reintroduction effort, ... Opposition to wolves in Yellowstone has been extremely mean-spirited. However, once the appeals court has reviewed the law and the reintroduction effort, we are confident that it will permit the wolves to stay. They are the capstone to the Yellowstone ecosystem.

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.

Many species can't be bred in captivity.

I think open space is like an endangered species, because once it's gone, it's gone. We can't go back and fix it.

These species are not inherently bad. They're just in the wrong place.

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

We should protect endangered species, but not at the expense of our property owners.

Let's face it, they're not human. They are a species that can reach through walls. They have tentacles that go outside the rooms they're in and spread out all over the world. When they walk into our classrooms, we chop those tentacles off and they don't like it.

The Endangered Species Act is in desperate need of an update, ... It has hurt species recovery by leading to the trend we all know as 'shoot, shovel and shut up.' And it has hurt family farmers and ranchers by taking their property away.

These protected areas are not only important for the conservation of species they contain, they also hold the key to comparing our own development as a species with our next of kin.

Tool usage in wild apes provides us with valuable insights into the evolution of our own species and the abilities of other species. Seeing it for the first time in gorillas is important on many different levels.

Natural species are the library from which genetic engineers can work.

After over three decades of implementation the Endangered Species Act (ESA) has recovered 10 of roughly 1300 listed species nationwide, ... The current law is just not working. TESRA is an innovative approach with bipartisan support that will turn the conflict under ESA into cooperation and refocus the law on actually recovering species. We can and must do better.

We're happy to provide habitat for fish and wildlife species, ... But we wanted some regulatory certainty and stability.

I think there's a tremendous ripple effect. For a species like the grizzly, it's an indicator species for the wildness of the greater Yellowstone.

Cherry continues to the dominant species in bedroom and dining room groups and North America is the only place where it is grown. Chinese cherry is not a true cherry. It's not a scientific cousin. If the piece says Chinese cherry, it is not the same species.

Can't you see that marriage is a fundamentally different institution? ... Marriage is the institution by which we propagate our species and inculcate our young.

We need to look at three things -- how many species there are, how abundant they are and how big an area they occupy.

Most of the cloned animals through all kinds of species are abnormal. A lot of them die prematurely, or have all kinds of defects. Many cloned mice die immediately after birth because of breathing failure.

There are only about 4,000 marine-plant species compared with an estimated 250,000 species of terrestrial green plants. Similarly, of the 1.7 million-or-so known animal species, only about one-tenth are from oceans, with most of these living on or close to the bottom in relatively shallow water.

All three moms are incredibly important to their species, which are either threatened or endangered. Allowing the public to choose a Zoo Mother of the Year gives us a chance to educate them about the challenges facing these species.