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Is the destiny of the human species to sit back and play with our mouse and computer and imagine, fantasize?
What we are doing to the future of our children, and the other species on the planet, is a clear moral issue.
Forecasting is simply not a strength of the species; we are much better with tools and narrative storytelling.
Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.
The story of our species is one of overcoming existential risk through new forms of cooperation and innovation.
The species will continue, whatever apocalypse we manage to unleash. It just won't be much fun to live through.
I don't think that we are a species or a people that can exist without making mistakes somewhere along the line.
What prevails in every corner of this globalized world is the real struggle of our species for its own survival.
We must be certain that the repair to the environment is sufficient to allow wild species to recover and survive.
With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.
You have to be able to love members of your own species before you can branch out and apply that to other species.
The Endangered Species Act was designed to preserve biodiversity, not enrich trial lawyers and political activists.
What we do, as a conscious species, is set markers for ourselves. Once we reach one marker, we advance to the next.
Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works.
If we can move together as a species, I think that there is a possibility that we can make the world a better place.
We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.
We are on red alert when it comes to how we are perceiving ourselves as a species. There's no desire to be an adult.
A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.
Whether you like the look or not, that tailcoat is a tough shell, a suit of armour. The posh boy is a hardy species.
The women who are pool waitresses are another worldly species. They're half-desert lizards. They never have sunburns.
I've always been anti-marriage for men until they become mature. As a species we don't mature until we're in our 60s.
Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning.
Is raising boys different from raising girls? Oh my goodness, yes! It's a different species, and I love them for that.
Unlike your fish tank, in nature, fish eat each other. When the population of a species gets too low, it will die out.
Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think about it every day.
I always felt that if we ever encountered an alien species, they wouldn't look like us or even be humanoid, like 'E.T.'
The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.
There are few student species more nakedly ambitious, focused, and future-oriented than the average Harvard law student.
As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.
What makes us different from other species is our capacity for compassion and empathy with the struggles of other people.
Unfortunately, with dinosaurs, we haven't had enough specimens to determine how much variation there is within a species.
Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.
The only thing that can save us as a species is seeing how we're not thinking about future generations in the way we live.
I live in a 'sky island,' a unique mountain valley environment where half the animal species of North America can be found.
My dad is an entomologist and research chemist. That's why he was in Fiji, studying the rhinoceros beetle invasive species.
We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.
If you don't have manufactured items or anything we think of as 'civilization,' then you're living according to your species.
U2 is an original species... there are colours and feelings and emotional terrain that we occupy that is ours and ours alone.
It is hard to explain the huge variety of diatoms - a microorganism that has 100,000 species - in terms of natural selection.
We have a love affair with the idea of the 'natural,' even though we, as a species, are about as unnatural as you can imagine.
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
The protection of biodiversity and, therefore, of endangered species is an issue to which I attach a great deal of importance.
We all have a responsibility to protect endangered species, both for their sake and for the sake of our own future generations.
We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.'
Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
If you want something beautiful to put on the dinner table, pick up a sockeye, the salmon species with the most vivid red flesh.
There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?
African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic studies now proves there are two.
Comedians really are like a species. That's not to be exclusive. Anyone can kind of become one. You have to pay your dues, though.
I'm an animal rights activist because I believe we won't have a planet if we continue to behave toward other species the way we do.