Species Quotes - Page 3
Charles Darwin (2003). “On the Origin of Species”, p.247, Broadview Press
Man selects only for his own good: Nature only for that of the being which she tends.
Charles Darwin, Duncan M. Porter, Frederick Burkhardt (2004). “The Correspondence of Charles Darwin:”, p.228, Cambridge University Press
Charles Darwin (2010). “Evolutionary Writings: including the Autobiographies”, p.286, OUP Oxford
A language, like a species, when extinct, never... reappears.
"The Origin of Species". Book by Charles Darwin, November 24, 1859.
For one species to mourn the death of another is a new thing under the sun.
Aldo Leopold (1989). “A Sand County Almanac, and Sketches Here and There”, p.22, Oxford University Press, USA
James Boswell, Samuel Johnson (1799). “Boswell's Life of Johnson: Including Boswell's Journal of a Tour of the Hebrides, and Johnson's Diary of A Journey Into North Wales”, p.426
Wendell Berry (2010). “What Are People For?: Essays”, p.61, Counterpoint Press
When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.
Timothy Zahn (2011). “Heir to the Empire: Star Wars Legends: The 20th Anniversary Edition”, p.31, Del Rey
Man with the great M is only an ideal, the species only something thought of.
"The Ego and Its Own (1844)". Book by Max Stirner. Dover edition, p. 182, 2005.
Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.145, Bantam
Adrienne Rich (1993). “A Wild Patience Has Taken Me This Far: Poems 1978-1981”, p.40, W. W. Norton & Company
There is no object to life. To nature nothing matters but the continuation of the species.
W. Somerset Maugham (2011). “A Writer's Notebook”, p.36, Random House
I think writing, my writing, is a species of mediumship. I become the person.
Virginia Woolf (2003). “A Writer's Diary”, p.286, HMH
Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.
Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Midnighters #1: The Secret Hour”, p.14, Harper Collins
John Taylor, Samuel Johnson (1789). “Sermons on different subjects”, p.205
Robert Fortune (2012). “A Journey to the Tea Countries of China: Including Sung-Lo and the Bohea Hills; with a Short Notice of the East India Company's Tea Plantations in the Himalaya Mountains”, p.329, Cambridge University Press