#species

Your soul is a dark forest. But the trees are of a particular species, they are genealogical trees. ↗

— Marcel Proust

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When I realized, in 1978, that Lucy did represent a new species of human ancestor, and that I had an opportunity to name this new species, I realized this was a revolutionary step in understanding human origins. ↗

— Donald Johanson

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Heaven and hell suppose two distinct species of men, the good and the bad. But the greatest part of mankind float betwixt vice and virtue. ↗

— David Hume

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The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

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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

#different #human #human consciousness #human species #mode

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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