#species

I used to have 30 different species of tarantulas, as well as two Australian scorpions that are considered the deadliest in the world. If stung by one, a person would die in 30 minutes. But when I had kids I had to get rid of them, of course. Those were intense! ↗

— Jonathan Davis

#australian #considered #course #deadliest #die

The question that will decide our destiny is not whether we shall expand into space. It is: shall we be one species or a million? A million species will not exhaust the ecological niches that are awaiting the arrival of intelligence. ↗

— Freeman Dyson

#awaiting #decide #destiny #ecological #exhaust

I think that my main criticism in that book was directed at the general assumption that adaptation characterizes populations and species, rather than simply the individuals in the populations and species. ↗

— George C. Williams

#assumption #book #characterizes #criticism #directed

The student who deceives himself into thinking that he is giving his life like an ascetic in the spirit of sacrifice for art, is the victim of a deplorable species of egotism. ↗

— Alma Gluck

#ascetic #deceives #deplorable #egotism #giving

It's no longer an exaggeration to say that middle-class Americans are an endangered species. ↗

— Arianna Huffington

#endangered species #exaggeration #longer #middle-class #say

First I shall name the eagle, of which there are three species: the great grey eagle is the largest, of great strength and high flight; he chiefly preys on fawns and other young quadrupeds. ↗

— William Bartram

#eagle #first #flight #great #grey

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

#began #between #carelessly #collected #dry

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

#around #bird #deck #different #enticing

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

#alone #i #little #low #our

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

— Thomas Carlyle

#confined #human #human species #laughter #privileges