#species

There is a species of person called a 'Modern Churchman' who draws the full salary of a beneficed clergyman and need not commit himself to any religious belief. ↗

— Evelyn Waugh

#belief #called #clergyman #commit #draws

Biologically the species is the accumulation of the experiments of all its successful individuals since the beginning. ↗

— H. G. Wells

#biologically #experiments #individuals #since #species

Celebrity chefs are the leaders in the field of food, and we are the led. Why should the leaders of chemical businesses be held responsible for polluting the marine environment with a few grams of effluent, which is sublethal to marine species, while celebrity chefs are turning out endangered fish at several dozen tables a night without enduring a syllable of criticism? ↗

— Charles Clover

#chefs #dining #endangered-species #fishing #sushi

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

— Lascelles Abercrombie

#epic #epic poetry #fall #poetry #species

In June as many as a dozen species may burst their buds on a single day. No man can heed all of these anniversaries; no man can ignore all of them. ↗

— Aldo Leopold

#anniversaries #buds #burst #day #dozen

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species. ↗

— Alan Lomax

#ballads #became #become #blues #british

The hierarchy of relations, from the molecular structure of carbon to the equilibrium of the species and ecological whole, will perhaps be the leading idea of the future. ↗

— Joseph Needham

#ecological #equilibrium #future #hierarchy #idea

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

#continue #create #disaster #environment #here

We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious. ↗

— Gaylord Nelson

#around #consequences #extinguish #life #must

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it. ↗

— Larry Niven

#cold war #could #during #faced #global