#species

Read through the most famous quotes by topic #species




I believe we are still so innocent. The species are still so innocent that a person who is apt to be murdered believes that the murderer, just before he puts the final wrench on his throat, will have enough compassion to give him one sweet cup of water.


Maya Angelou


#before #believe #believes #compassion #cup

If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.


David Attenborough


#aware #better #did #disappearing #doing

The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between it and millions of other species of both animals and plants.


David Attenborough


#between #both #dependency #environment #lives

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

Moreover, the concern of some that moving DNA among species would breach customary breeding barriers and have profound effects on natural evolutionary processes has substantially disappeared as the science revealed that such exchanges occur in nature.


Paul Berg


#barriers #breach #breeding #concern #customary

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


Antoinette Brown Blackwell


#being #each #equals #equivalents #identical

We don't protect our young, and we tolerate predators of our own species.


Andrew Vachss


#own #predators #protect #species #tolerate

I reject animal welfare reform and single-issue campaigns because they are not only inconsistent with the claims of justice that we should be making if we really believe that animal exploitation is wrong, but because these approaches cannot work as a practical matter. Animals are property and it costs money to protect their interests; therefore, the level of protection accorded to animal interests will always be low and animals will, under the best of circumstances, still be treated in ways that would constitute torture if applied to humans. By endorsing welfare reforms that supposedly make exploitation more “compassionate” or single-issue campaigns that falsely suggest that there is a coherent moral distinction between meat and dairy or between fur and wool or between steak and foie gras, we betray the principle of justice that says that all sentient beings are equal for purposes of not being used exclusively as human resources. And, on a practical level, we do nothing more than make people feel better about animal exploitation. I maintain that those who believe that animals are members of the moral community should, instead, make clear that veganism, defined as not eating, wearing, or using animals, is the non-negotiable, unequivocal moral baseline and should put their labor and resources into grassroots vegan education that may take a myriad of creative forms but should never involve violence. -- Gary L. Francione: The Abolitionist Approach to Animal Rights From From "Got Faith (in Animal Welfare)?" | Animal Rights: The Abolitionist Approach http://bit.ly/ndYlNS


Gary L. Francione


#animal-welfare #chattel-property #exploitation #humane #slavery

A strong body makes the mind strong. As to the species of exercises, I advise the gun. While this gives moderate exercise to the body, it gives boldness, enterprise and independence to the mind. Games played with the ball, and others of that nature, are too violent for the body and stamp no character on the mind. Let your gun therefore be your constant companion of your walks.


Thomas Jefferson


#ball #body #boldness #character #companion

Closely related species of birds are also chromosomally similar.


Peter R. Grant


#birds #closely #related #similar #species