#species

I first began to dry specimens for preservation carelessly perhaps at first, but before the season was over, I had collected between one and two hundred species. ↗

— George Bentham

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My new house has a deck that wraps around my writing room; my writing room has many windows, and outside the windows I've hung bird feeders... for enticing different species. So I imagine I will be writing about that. ↗

— Julia Cameron

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If it's true that our species is alone in the universe, then I'd have to say the universe aimed rather low and settled for very little. ↗

— George Carlin

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Laughter is one of the very privileges of reason, being confined to the human species. ↗

— Thomas Carlyle

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The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness. ↗

— J. M. Coetzee

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On the ordinary view of each species having been independently created, we gain no scientific explanation. ↗

— Charles Darwin

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The Endangered Species Act is the strongest and most effective tool we have to repair the environmental harm that is causing a species to decline. ↗

— Norm Dicks

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You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like a hundred a day. ↗

— Jon Fishman

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Moreover, all our knowledge of organic remains teaches us, that species have a definite existence, and a centralization in geological time as well as in geographical space, and that no species is repeated in time. ↗

— Edward Forbes

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We can understand, too, that natural species are chosen not because they are 'good to eat' but because they are 'good to think.' ↗

— Levi Strauss

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