The truth is that from birth on we are, to one extent or another, a fairly sensual species.
Woman is the gate of the devil, the road to iniquity, the sting of the scorpion, in a word, a dangerous species.
With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
And so in 1975, the grizzly bear was put on, as I said - on the endangered species list as threatened. And new measures were taken, for instance, bear-proofing garbage, creating new regulations to - essentially to try and keep people and people's food away from the bears, let the bears adjust to eating the abundant wild food that's available in Yellowstone and allow them to be more wild, to be independent of humans as sources of foods for the good of both sides. And that has been quite successful.
Taught to regard a part of our own Species in the most abject and contemptible Degree below us, we lose that Idea of the dignity of Man which the Hand of Nature had implanted in us, for great and useful purposes.
Natural selection has ensured that each species achieves the requisite effect somehow, but it doesn't care, so to speak, how the trick is done.
Otter is the most brilliant mix of facts ancient and modern about the otter species and its vulnerability to man's seemingly insatiable need to hunt the poor animal for reasons other than survival. I am sure the book will help to ensure that the hunting of otters will never return to this country-and I hope other lands will follow this example. . . A fascinating and illuminating book.
Human courtship has some wild extremes. At one end of the spectrum, there is harassment, pestering, blackmail, and an abuse of institutional power, which its targets rightly fear and loathe. At the other end is love, which as Nietzsche said, is beyond good and evil and always deserves our respect and compassion even when it is doomed or destructive. In the wide middle of the spectrum are all the ambiguous and tragi-comic goings-on of our species.
Eradication of this unquenchable shrub [tamarisk] will save water, lower salinity levels and create a more congenial habitat for the Southwest Willow Flycatcher and a number of other riparian species.
I do not agree with this century's fashion of running down the human species as a failed try, a doomed sport. At our worst, we may be going through the early stages of adolescence, and everyone remembers what that is like.
Music can move us to the heights or depths of emotion. It can persuade us to buy something, or remind us of our first date. It can lift us out of depression when nothing else can. It can get us dancing to its beat. But the power of music goes much, much further. Indeed, music occupies more areas of our brain than language does-humans are a musical species.
LICKSPITTLE, n. A useful functionary, not infrequently found editing a newspaper. . . the lickspittle is only the blackmailer under another aspect, although the latter is frequently found as an independent species.
Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.
There is part of a structure in which every species is related to every other species. And they're built up on species, like a pyramid. The simpler cell organisms, and then the more complicated ones, all the way up to the mammals and birds and so forth. We call it 'developing upward'. . . The whole thing depends on every part of it. And we're taking out the stones from the pyramid.
A creationist can embarrass an evolutionist by asking for a definition of species.
If I succeed in loving you, I will be able to love everyone and all species on Earth. . . This is the real message of love
As a species, we've always been discoverers and adventurers, and space and the deep ocean are some of the last frontiers.
It is not only species of animal that die out, but whole species of feeling. And if you are wise you will never pity the past for what it did not know, but pity yourself for what it did.
The human species thinks in metaphors and learns through stories.
Not one change of species into another is on record. . . we cannot prove that a single species has been changed.