#species

Humans invent an imaginary lover and put that mask over the face of the body in their bed. That is the tragedy of language my friend. Those who know each other only through symbolic representations are forced to imagine each other. And because their imagination is imperfect, they are often wrong. ↗

— Orson Scott Card

#buggers #love #pequeninos #relationships #species

Let us beware of saying that death is the opposite of life. The living being is only a species of the dead, and a very rare species. ↗

— Friedrich Nietzsche

#beware #dead #death #let us #life

[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently selfish species. Past human greatness has proven that when challenged, love can overpower impulsive instinct, and in essence, the vilest aspects of our nature. ↗

— Tiffany Madison

#essence #flaw #human #human-condition #human-nature

Art exists for the human species. I think that all of the people who love art, those who teach art, and all of you should burn with the obligation to save the world. ↗

— Shinichi Suzuki

#burn #exists #human #human species #i

We are a very, very unusual species. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

#unusual #very

A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally. ↗

— George Mercer Dawson

#bird #could #dry #duck #eggs

Even though the album is an endangered species, can we try and make a coherent and good one, even if it's like making a horse and cart at a Nascar conference? ↗

— Chris Martin

#cart #coherent #conference #endangered #endangered species

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#competitive #doomed #ecological #evolutionary #extinction

The major novelty of my theory was its claim that the most rapid evolutionary change does not occur in widespread, populous species, as claimed by Most geneticists, but in small founder populations. ↗

— Ernst Mayr

#claim #claimed #does #evolutionary #founder

Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually. ↗

— John M. McHugh

#american taxpayers #annually #billions #costing #damaging