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Species Quotes - Page 4

The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA.

The thing that defines a species is that all members have the same addressing system for their DNA.

Richard Dawkins (2015). “The Blind Watchmaker: Why the Evidence of Evolution Reveals a Universe without Design”, p.120, W. W. Norton & Company

Males are the most incomprehensible species.

Rachel Cohn, David Levithan (2010). “Dash & Lily's Book of Dares”, p.182, Knopf Books for Young Readers

He who is without a newspaper is cut off from his species.

P. T. Barnum (1999). “Art of Money Getting”, p.68, Applewood Books

We are the only species systematically destroying its own habitat.

"SISTER GIANT: Consciousness and Politics" by Marianne Williamson, www.huffingtonpost.com. September 6, 2012.

We are the species that clamors to be lied to.

Joyce Carol Oates (1999). “Where I've Been, and where I'm Going: Essays, Reviews, and Prose”, Plume Books

He'll love and hate equally under cover, and esteem it a species of impertinence to loved or hated again.

Charlotte Bronte, Emily Bronte, Anne Bronte (2009). “The Bronte Sisters: Three Novels: Jane Eyre; Wuthering Heights; and Agnes Grey (Penguin Classics Deluxe Edition)”, p.372, Penguin

A false modesty is the meanest species of pride.

Edward Gibbon, John Baker Holroyd (1827). “Memoires of the Life and Writings of Edward Gibbon, Esq”, p.85

A new species is arising on the planet, it is arising now and you are it.

Eckhart Tolle (2008). “Oneness With All Life: Inspirational Selections from A New Earth”, p.34, Penguin

It's animal by animal that you save a species.

Diane Ackerman (2011). “The Rarest of the Rare: Vanishing Animals, Timeless Worlds”, p.19, Vintage

Choice is a signature of our species.

Diane Ackerman (2011). “A Slender Thread: Rediscovering Hope at the Heart of Crisis”, p.254, Vintage

Islands are where species go to die.

"The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions". Book by David Quammen, 1996.