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Species Quotes - Page 3

Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

Bad taste is a species of bad morals.

"They Shoot Footage, Don’t They?" by Ellen Leventry, www.beliefnet.com.

Multiply, vary, let the strongest live and the weakest die.

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

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

Hope is itself a species of happiness.

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

We are living in the most destructive and, hence, the most stupid period of the history of our species.

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.

The world was not made for any one species.

Daniel Quinn (2009). “Ishmael: A Novel”, p.145, Bantam

Strangers are an endangered species.

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

As a species we're fundamentally insane.

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

Apparently textbooks were an endangered species here in Bixby, Oklahoma.

Scott Westerfeld (2009). “Midnighters #1: The Secret Hour”, p.14, Harper Collins

Gratitude is a species of justice.

John Taylor, Samuel Johnson (1789). “Sermons on different subjects”, p.205

A small species of pinus was much prized, and, when dwarfed in the manner of the Chinese, fetched a very high price; it is generally grafted on a variety of the stone pine.

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