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My childhood dreams were focused on being part of the effort to make humanity a multiplanetary species.
Peter Diamandis

Dreams, Humanity, Effort

Removing substantial fuel loads from our forests helps prevent catastrophic fire and better protects species, watersheds and neighboring communities that call them home.
Greg Walden

Home, Fire, Call

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

War, Human, Used

This unusual and highly successful species spends a great deal of time examining his higher motives and an equal amount of time ignoring his fundamental ones.
Desmond Morris

Time, Great, Successful

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

Longer, Endangered

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.
Jean Anthelme Brillat-Savarin

Human, Different, Rather

Long after this wonderful event in the Earth's history, when the human species was spread over a good deal of Asia, Europe, and Africa, migration to the American continents began in attempts to find new feeding grounds and unoccupied areas for hunting and fishing.
Harry Johnston

Good, History, Long

It's very limiting to us as a species, the concept of better-than/less-than. It just seems to be at its end. I'm like, this all fades to black, and it's gone. It's dust. Choose carefully what you obsess about.
Meshell Ndegeocello

End, Black, Seems

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.
Lynn Margulis

Change, Again, Until

The urgency to mate persists in all people as in all other mammals because of the evolutionary drive to continue the species, the inborn imperative for genes to reproduce and hormonal differences that evolved over millions of years.
Lynn Margulis

Drive, Continue, Millions

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.
Lynn Margulis

Ask, Questions, Fewer

There is no scientific reason to think that we, even with space travel, are going to survive as a species for ever, certainly not by biting off the hand that feeds us, which is exactly what we are doing.
Lynn Margulis

Travel, Reason, Off

Politicians need a better understanding of global ecology. We need to be freed from our species-specific arrogance. No evidence exists that we are 'chosen', the unique species for which all the others were made. Nor are we the most important one because we are so numerous, powerful and dangerous.
Lynn Margulis

Powerful, Important, Made

Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library without ever having read its books.
John Dingell

Living, Read, Books

We are a species that must try to impose and find systems - systems of thought, ways of organizing and categorizing reality.
Jonah Goldberg

Reality, Thought, Find

Historians will have to face the fact that natural selection determined the evolution of cultures in the same manner as it did that of species.
Konrad Lorenz

Same, Fact, Face

These mountains appear to be almost entirely composed of stratas of rock of various colours (mostly red) and are partially covered with a dwarfish growth of pine and cedar, which are the only species of timber to be seen.
William Henry Ashley

Rock, Growth, Almost

Aquatic invasive species are destroying the environment, damaging fisheries, and costing American taxpayers billions of dollars annually.
John M. McHugh

American, Dollars, Destroying

Getting inside the mind of a terrorist wasn't difficult at all. Even as children, human beings fabricate elaborate revenge fantasies. We're not a particular species. Check out popular video games.
Alan Dean Foster

Mind, Revenge, Children

The mode of consciousness of nonhuman species is quite different from human consciousness.
J. M. Coetzee

Human, Different, Quite

Human freedom is not an illusion; it is an objective phenomenon, distinct from all other biological conditions and found in only one species - us.
Daniel Dennett

Freedom, Human, Found

Mankind is considered (by the radical environmentalists) the lowest and the meanest of all species and is blamed for everything.
Dixie Lee Ray

Everything, Mankind, Radical

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

Life, Art, Thinking

But it really wasn't until three to four years later, when we had an opportunity in the lab to make very detailed observations, and comparisons with other fossil discoveries, that we realized she was a new species of human ancestor.
Donald Johanson

Human, She, Until

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

Human, Step, Name

When I was in the seventh grade I did a report about the environment and the loss of species. It was supposed to be only a few pages, but ended up being nearly 50.
Woody Harrelson

Few, Loss, Grade

The adaptive markets hypothesis says that all economic institutions, like our own species, develop and change over time, depending on the population of investors that are engaged with them.
Andrew Lo

Change, Time, Economic

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

Off, Fact, Earth

Crime is a fact of the human species, a fact of that species alone, but it is above all the secret aspect, impenetrable and hidden. Crime hides, and by far the most terrifying things are those which elude us.
Georges Bataille

Alone, Human, Fact

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.
Robert T. Bakker

Land, Bridges, Extinction

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