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Species Quotes

In every species of fish I’ve angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn’t, much of the thrill of angling would be gone Picture Quote #1

We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don’t wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not that we refuse to relinquish hope as a species. The amazing thing is that we’re right to hold on to hope. The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.... Obviously not all stories end happily. We don’t always have good fortune, but hope gives us, as a species and as individuals, what we otherwise wouldn’t have: A chance Picture Quote #1

People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren’t for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today Picture Quote #1

Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too is part of evolution. If cod and haddock and other species cannot survive because man kills them, something more adaptable will take their place. Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us Picture Quote #1

For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice Picture Quote #1

As a species we’re fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion? Picture Quote #1

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One of the most irresponsible things we can do is eat in ignorance, without any awareness of what our eating is doing to the world or to other species Picture Quote #1

Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case Picture Quote #1

All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is the mind; which is a more constant quantity over all the species of humanity than is generally supposed Picture Quote #1

We’re dead as a species if we don’t tell stories, because then we don’t know who we are Picture Quote #1

Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works Picture Quote #1

I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution Picture Quote #1

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Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species Picture Quote #1

The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced Picture Quote #1

Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation Picture Quote #1

To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature Picture Quote #1

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In every species of fish I’ve angled for, it is the ones that have got away that thrill me the most, the ones that keep fresh in my memory. So I say it is good to lose fish. If we didn’t, much of the thrill of angling would be gone (Species Quotes) We live in this irreparably broken world, and I don’t wish to deny reality, but the amazing thing to me is not that we refuse to relinquish hope as a species. The amazing thing is that we’re right to hold on to hope. The world may be broken, but hope is not crazy.... Obviously not all stories end happily. We don’t always have good fortune, but hope gives us, as a species and as individuals, what we otherwise wouldn’t have: A chance (Species Quotes) People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren’t for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today (Species Quotes) Man wants to see nature and evolution as separate from human activities. There is a natural world, and there is man. But man also belongs to the natural world. If he is a ferocious predator, that too is part of evolution. If cod and haddock and other species cannot survive because man kills them, something more adaptable will take their place. Nature, the ultimate pragmatist, doggedly searches for something that works. But as the cockroach demonstrates, what works best in nature does not always appeal to us (Species Quotes) For a solitary animal egoism is a virtue that tends to preserve and improve the species: in any kind of community it becomes a destructive vice (Species Quotes) As a species we’re fundamentally insane. Put more than two of us in a room, we pick sides and start dreaming up reasons to kill one another. Why do you think we invented politics and religion? (Species Quotes) One of the most irresponsible things we can do is eat in ignorance, without any awareness of what our eating is doing to the world or to other species (Species Quotes) Certainly it is wrong to be cruel to animals and the destruction of a whole species can be a great evil. The capacity for feelings of pleasure and pain and for the form of life of which animals are capable clearly impose duties of compassion and humanity in their case (Species Quotes) All phenomena of which we are aware take place in our own minds, and therefore the only thing we have to look at is the mind; which is a more constant quantity over all the species of humanity than is generally supposed (Species Quotes) We’re dead as a species if we don’t tell stories, because then we don’t know who we are (Species Quotes) Our species needs, and deserves, a citizenry with minds wide awake and a basic understanding of how the world works (Species Quotes) I am talking about the general psychological health of the species, man. He needs the existence of mysteries. Not their solution (Species Quotes) Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species (Species Quotes) The climate of our culture is changing. Under these new rains, new suns, small things grow great, and what was great grows small; whole species disappear and are replaced (Species Quotes) Deep thinking is attainable only by a man of deep feeling, and all truth is a species of revelation (Species Quotes) To dwellers in a wood, almost every species of tree has its voice as well as its feature (Species Quotes)

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