#species

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #species




Our climate is changing. The Earth's climate has, in fact, warmed by 1.1 to 1.6 degrees Fahrenheit since the industrial revolution. People look at this and say: Oh, that is not very much. In fact, it is very much, and it changes the dynamic. It impacts species. It kills some. It diminishes the carbon sink of the ocean. It does a number of things.


Dianne Feinstein


#changes #changing #climate #degrees #diminishes

Walter had never liked cats. They'd seemed to him the sociopaths of the pet world, a species domesticated as an evil necessary for the control of rodents and subsequently fetishized the way unhappy countries fetishize their militaries, saluting the uniforms of killers as cat owners stroke their animals' lovely fur and forgive their claws and fangs. He'd never seen anything in a cat's face but simpering incuriosity and self-interest; you only had to tease one with a mouse-toy to see where it's true heart lay...cats were all about using people


Jonathan Franzen


#animals #cats #cats-being-needed #dogs #dogs-and-cats

If epic poetry is a definite species, the sagas do not fall within it.


Lascelles Abercrombie


#epic #epic poetry #fall #poetry #species

Yes, the human race is a small species in an infinite universe filled with many other planets and many other things, but though small; this race is bearer of very great and big things: Destiny, Virtue, Hope, Love... and that's what makes this species different. That's what makes this species very shiny and very visible and very important, in a whole, whole, big, big, vast, expanding universe!


C. JoyBell C.


#humanism #humanity #inspirational-quotes #the-human-species #the-importance-of-the-human-race

Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings.


Henry Mayhew


#acquiring #after #any #called #consent

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.


Robert T. Bakker


#diseases #during #everywhere #extinction #land

As much horror as we have always created, we are a species that keeps moving forward, seeing new sights in new ways, and enjoying the journey.


Martha Beck


#created #enjoying #forward #horror #journey

The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.


Antoinette Brown Blackwell


#being #each #equals #equivalents #identical

For my own part I think no innocent species of wit or pleasantry should be suppressed: and that a good pun may be admitted among the smaller excellencies of lively conversation.


James Boswell


#among #conversation #excellencies #good #i

If venereal delight and the power of propagating the species were permitted only to the virtuous, it would make the world very good.


James Boswell


#good #make #only #permitted #power