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Life is insanely robust, though we can make species go extinct, and this is the bad thing. So I always make the point that you can't say, 'Is it too late?' That is the terrible question, because either answer promotes inaction. If it's too late, you don't need to act; if it's not too late, you don't need to act.
Kim Stanley Robinson

Life, Bad, Question

I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust.
Cory Doctorow

Work, Good, Less

With the exception of certain rodents, no other vertebrate except Homo sapiens habitually destroys members of his own species.
Anthony Storr

Except, Exception, Homo

The snow leopard is absolutely magnificent. It represents really what endangered species are all about.
Jack Hanna

Snow, Endangered, Leopard

Every paleontologist knows that most new species, genera, and families, and that nearly all categories above the level of family appear in the record suddenly and are not led up to by known, gradual, completely continuous transitional sequences.
George G. Simpson

Family, Knows, Known

He is a state of matter, a form of life, a sort of animal, and a species of the Order Primates, akin nearly or remotely to all of life and indeed to all that is material.
George G. Simpson

Life, Matter, State

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.
Richard Owen

Before, After, Maturity

That the variability of an organism to a certain extent is a constant and certain condition of life we admit, otherwise there would be no distinguishable individuals of a species.
Richard Owen

Life, Admit, Condition

It had an enormous impact to the point of the United Nations passing a resolution against the killing and hunting of these whales as they are an endangered species. This was a documentary on the plight of the whales.
Wavy Gravy

Against, Point, United

We must recognize that we're all part of a web of life around the world. Anytime you extinguish a species, the consequences are serious.
Gaylord Nelson

Life, Serious, Around

If we continue to address the issue of the environment where we live as though we're the only species that lives here, we'll create a disaster for ourselves.
Gaylord Nelson

Live, Here, Lives

Colombia has a huge variety of plant and animal species, and we have enormous potential. Small and mid-sized companies should come to Colombia. From here, they have access to the entire Latin American market.
Juan Manuel Santos

Small, Here, American

Humanity is quite a unique species, since it is the only one with the means to wipe itself out.
Ramman Kenoun

Humanity, Means, Unique

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

Book, Rather, Criticism

Hope is itself a species of happiness, and, perhaps, the chief happiness, which this world affords.
William Samuel Johnson

Happiness, Hope, Perhaps

The Indian Corn, or Maiz, proves the most useful Grain in the World; and had it not been for the Fruitfulness of this Species, it would have proved very difficult to have settled some of the Plantations in America.
John Lawson

America, Difficult, Useful

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

Good, Understand, Natural

Watching baseball under the lights is like observing dogs indoors, at a pedigree show. In both instances, the environment is too controlled to suit the species.
Melvin Maddocks

Baseball, Show, Both

I'm hoping to make a new thing for the world that remains in the mind like a new species of living thing.
Frank Auerbach

Mind, Living, Hoping

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

Time, Knowledge, Space

Whenever one reads of the determination of the species, or opens a book on natural science and history, in whatever language, one inevitably comes across the name of Linne.
Johannes Vilhelm Jensen

History, Science, Book

The more you know about a species, the more you understand about how better to help protect them.
Alan Clark

Help, Understand, Protect

A single tree in the tropical forest in the south of Mexico has more different species than some European countries.
Carlos Salinas de Gortari

Single, Different, Tree

These studies resulted eventually in a complete sequence analysis of the complex from several species, and in the atomic resolution structure of the F catalytic domain of the enzyme from bovine mitochondria, giving new insights into how ATP is made in the biological world.
John E. Walker

Giving, Made, Resolution

The British ballads became a new kind of form in their hand. And out of them came the blues, a new kind of song of commentary and satire, a song form which, after all, has become the main musical form of the whole human species.
Alan Lomax

Human, After, Become

A duck's nest was found today near the trail on the dry open prairie with as far as could be seen no water or marsh near. The bird flew off but could not tell what species. The eggs nine originally.
George Mercer Dawson

Today, Tell, Off

I certainly look at the modern guys and think they are a different species to when we played. They are fitter and their conditioning is extraordinary.
Will Carling

Different, Guys, Played

The sexes in each species of being... are always true equivalents - equals but not identical.
Antoinette Brown Blackwell

True, Sexes, Equals

The egg of every species of animal or plant carries a definite number of bodies called chromosomes. The sperm carries the same number. Consequently, when the sperm unites with the egg, the fertilized egg will contain the double number of chromosomes.
Thomas Hunt Morgan

Same, Number, Animal

It is a drastic mistake to eliminate the provisions that have to do with the protection of habitat for endangered species. It is my opinion that the Endangered Species Act is 99 percent about protecting critical habitat.
Jim Saxton

Opinion, Act, Mistake

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