Top 25 Species Quotes of 89

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.

Snow, Leopards, Endangered Species

Intelligence is based on how efficient a species became at doing the things they need to survive.

Inspirational, Needs, Species

Charles Darwin (2015). “Darwin on Evolution: Words of Wisdom from the Father of Evolution”, p.5, Skyhorse Publishing, Inc.

The more Indians we can kill... the less will have to be killed the next war, for the more I see of these Indians, the more convinced I am that they all have to be killed or be maintained as a species of paupers.

William Tecumseh Sherman

War, Next, Species

I have no particular love for my species, but own to an exhaustless fund of compassion

Dorothea Dix

Compassion, Fund, Species

Dandyism is a species of genius.

William Hazlitt

Genius, Dandyism, Species

I am a rare species, not a stereotype.

Ivan E. Coyote

Stereotype, Species

We're dead as a species if we don't tell stories, because then we don't know who we are.

Alan Rickman

Stories, Who We Are, Species

Each individual is a species unto him/herself.

Rudolf Steiner

Individual, Species

"Theosophy: An Introduction to the Spiritual Processes in Human Life and in the Cosmos". Book by Rudolf Steiner, 1904.

What happens to other species also happens to us.

Bill Nye

Species, Happens

Bill Nye (2014). “Undeniable: Evolution and the Science of Creation”, p.4, St. Martin's Press

If evolution exists in every living species, likewise so too does devolution.

Samael Aun Weor

Doe, Evolution, Species

Great is the power of steady misrepresentation

Charles Darwin

Inspirational, Misrepresentation, Origin Of Species

1859 The Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection.

We are the only species on earth capable of preventing our own flowering.

David Whyte

Earth, Flowering, Species

We're the only species that listens to Michael Bublé when we have sex. That's gotta be wrong.

Chris D'Elia

Sex, Species

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

Paul Watson

Thinking, Legacy, Species

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.

Douglas Adams

Trying, Climate Change, Endangered Species

Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2011). “Last Chance to See”, p.81, Ballantine Books

The Human is the most insane species

Hubert Reeves

Insane, Humans, Species

Grief is a species of idleness.

Samuel Johnson

Grief, Sorrow, Species

Letter to Mrs Thrale, 17 March 1773, in R. W. Chapman (ed.) 'The Letters of Samuel Johnson' (1952) vol. 1

I am almost convinced (quite contrary to opinion I started with) that species are not (it is like confessing a murder) immutable.

Charles Darwin

Opinion, Murder, Origin Of Species

Charles Darwin, James T. Costa (2009). “The Annotated Origin: A Facsimile of the First Edition of On the Origin of Species”, p.6, Harvard University Press