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“The selective voluntary blindness of human beings allows them to ignore the moral consequences of their choices. It has been one of the species' most valuable traits, in terms of the survival of any particular human community.”

Humans Has Beens Choices Term Community Human Beings Moral Particular Survival Consequence Species Valuable Traits Blindness Selective

Author:Orson Scott Card

“Our inability to think beyond our own species, or to be able to co-habit with other life forms in what is patently a massive collaborative quest for survival, is surely a malady that pervades the human soul.”

Thinking Humans Soul Able Form Habit Survival Species Environmental Massive Quests Conservation Inability Human Soul Malady

Author:Lawrence Anthony

“I couldn’t move. It’s something I’m still ashamed of. You always wonder how you’ll handle a moment of crisis; if you’ve got what it takes to fight or if you’ve just been deluding yourself all along that somewhere deep inside you there’s steel beneath the magnolia. Now I knew the truth. There wasn’t. I was all petals and pollen. Good for attracting the procreators who could ensure the survival of our species, but not a survivor myself. I was Barbie after all.”

Ifs Stills Moments Moving Fighting Wonder Survival Crisis Species Handle Ashamed Survivor Steel Petals Deep Inside Barbie Magnolias Pollen

Author:Karen Marie Moning

“Species do not grow more perfect: the weaker dominate the strong, again and again- the reason being that they are the great majority, and they are also cleverer. Darwin forgot the mind (-that is English!): the weak possess more mind. ... To acquire mind, one must need mind-one loses it when one no longer needs it.”

Needs Mind Reason Science Strong Grows Loses Perfect Evolution Survival Weak Majority Species Acquire Again And Again

Author:Friedrich Nietzsche

“Our loyalties are to the species and the planet. We speak for Earth. Our obligation to survive is owed not just to ourselves but also to that Cosmos, ancient and vast, from which we spring.”

Earth Speak Planets Evolution Survival Spring Species Ancient Positive Atheism Loyalty Obligation Cosmos

Author:Carl Sagan

“There is enough for everyone to have what they need without exploitation. Adequate distribution of resources, including education, without violence can lead to a sustainable system that doesn't stress the ecosphere. Alternately, continued violence feeds population surges and hoarding the products of exploitative extraction, which endanger the survival of our species. In short, if we want a future with humans on Earth, we've got to stop war.”

Ifs Want Needs Humans War Enough Earth Violence Products Survival Resources Stress Species Including Population Exploitation Distribution Adequate Hoarding Extraction Stop War

Author:Vern Huffman

“There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.”

Two War Problem Survival Species Environmental Nuclear Catastrophe Nuclear War

Author:Noam Chomsky

“No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.”

Mind Humans Reason Purpose Survival Species Various Technique Just One Devices Human Mind Imperatives Genetics Reproduction

Author:E. O. Wilson

“Without birds to feed on them, the insects would multiply catastrophically. The insects, not man or other proud species, are really the only ones fitted for survival in the nuclear age. The cockroach, a venerable and hardy species, will take over the habitats of the foolish humans, and compete only with other insects or bacteria.”

Men Humans Age Science Proud Survival Bird Species Nuclear Foolish Insects Habitat Hardy Bacteria Cockroaches

Author:H. Bentley Glass

“We the human species, are confronting a planetary emergency-a threat to the survival of our civilization that is gathering ominous and destructive potential...the earth has a fever. And the fever is rising...Indeed, without realizing it, we have begun to wage war on earth itself.”

Humans War Earth Energy Realizing Environment Civilization Survival Threat Species Climate Change Rising Destructive Gathering Emergencies Fever Confronting Human Species Ominous

Author:Al Gore

“Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent of Earth's forests are heavily impacted or gone yet their destruction continues. An estimated 50,000 species are driven to extinction each year. We dump millions of tonnes of chemicals, most untested for their biological effects, and many highly toxic, into air, water and soil. We have created an ecological holocaust. Our very health and survival are at stake, yet we act as if we have plenty of time to respond.”

“Global warming threatens the survival of our species.”

Environment Survival Species Environmental Global Warming

Author:Lucien Bouchard

“The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on Earth - social and environmental.”

Ifs Humans Mean Problem Earth Social Race Millions Survival Species Environmental Climate Change Solve Billions Human Race Global Warming Extinction Dwelling Homo Sapiens

Author:Ingrid Newkirk

“The expression often used by Mr. Herbert Spencer of the Survival of the Fittest is more accurate, and is sometimes equally convenient.”

Sometimes Used Expression Survival Species Accurate Convenient Natural Selection Survival Of The Fittest Origin Of Species

Author:Charles Darwin

“Thus, just as animals of many species, including man, are disposed to respond with fear to sudden movement or a marked change in level of sound or light because to do so has a survival value, so are many species, including man, disposed to respond to separation from a potentially caregiving figure and for the same reasons.”

Men Reason Light Values Sound Animal Levels Figures Movement Survival Species Including Separation Caregiving

Book:A Secure Base

Source: A Secure Base

“Human existence may be simpler than we thought. There is no predestination, no unfathomed mystery of life. Demons and gods do not vie for our allegiance. Instead, we are self-made, independent, alone, and fragile, a biological species adapted to live in a biological world. What counts for long-term survival is intelligent self-understanding, based upon a greater independence of thought than that tolerated today even in our most advanced democratic societies.”

“Our survival as a species depends on our ability to recognize that our well-being and the well-being of others are in fact one and the same.”

Wells Facts Ability Communication Depends Survival Species Well Being Nonviolent Communication

Author:Marshall B. Rosenberg

“An animal is equipped for sustaining its life; its senses provide it with an automatic code of action, an automatic knowledge of what is good for it or evil... Man has no automatic code of survival. His particular distinction from all other living species is the necessity to act in the face of alternatives by means of volitional choice.”

Men Mean Action Faces Choices Evil Animal Particular Survival Species Senses Alternatives Code Distinction Sustaining Evil Man

Book:Philosophy: Who Needs It

Source: Philosophy: Who Needs It

“The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it is slipping away. The way back seems harder every year. If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding, through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations. And thus humanity closes the door on its past.”

“Art, as I see it, is any human activity which doesn’t grow out of either of our species’ two basic instincts: survival and reproduction.”

Humans Art Two Grows Activity Survival Instinct Species Reproduction Human Activity

Author:Scott McCloud

“Animals engage in a struggle for existence; for resources, to avoid being eaten and to breed. Environmental factors influence organisms to develop new characteristics to ensure survival, thus transforming into new species. Animals that survive to breed can pass on their successful characteristics to offspring.”

Animal Existence Struggle Successful Influence Survival Resources Species Environmental Factors Characteristics Organisms Transforming Offspring Struggle For Existence Environmental Factors

Author:Al-Jahiz

“Ninety-nine percent of the time humans have lived on this planet we've lived in tribes, groups of 12 to 36 people. Only during times of war, or what we have now, which is the psychological equivalent of war, does the nuclear family prevail, because it's the most mobile unit that can ensure the survival of the species. But for the full flowering of the human spirit we need groups, tribes.”

“Today, the fundamental global objective of all education aspiring not only to progress but to the survival of humanity is to Civilize and Unify the Earth and Transform the human species into genuine humanity The education of the future should teach an ethics of planetary understanding.”

Should Humans Today Earth Humanity Understanding Teach Progress Survival Ethics Fundamentals Species Genuine Objectives Human Species

Author:Edgar Morin

“We never stop investigating. We are never satisfied that we know enough to get by. Every question we answer leads on to another question. This has become the greatest survival trick of our species.”

Knows Enough Answers Survival Species Tricks Satisfied Investigating

Book:The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal

Source: The illustrated naked ape: a zoologist's study of the human animal

“Totally captivating. Starhawk has created a magic land to which we can return at will for the kind of exotic romance and adventure we all crave. Her celebration of the richness of cultural diversity heralds the possibility of a mutually enhancing multicultural community. Here, too, is a vision of the paradigm shift that is essential for our very survival as a species on this planet.”

“Coming to know the hidden and forgotten Mother and the marvelous wisdom of the sacred feminine as revealed from every side and angle by the different mystical traditions is not luxury; it is, I believe, a necessity for our survival as a species.”

Knows Believe Different Mother I Believe Sides Survival Tradition Sacred Species Forgotten Luxury Feminine Marvelous Angle Mystical Mother Nature Sacred Feminine

Book:Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action

Source: Radical Passion: Sacred Love and Wisdom in Action

“Many say exploration is part of our destiny, but it's actually our duty to future generations and their quest to ensure the survival of the human species.”

Humans Space Destiny Generations Duty Survival Species Exploration Quests Our Destiny Future Generation Star Gazing Human Species

Author:Buzz Aldrin

“If our long-term survival is at stake, we have a basic responsibility to our species to venture to other worlds. Sailors on a becalmed sea, we sense the stirring of a breeze.”

Source: Pale Blue Dot: A Vision of the Human Future in Space

“Happiness is just another of the tricks that our genetic system plays on us to carry out its only role, which is the survival of the species.”

Play Roles Honest Survival Species Tricks

Author:Paulo Coelho

“If the wolf is to survive, the wolf haters must be outnumbered. They must be outshouted, out financed, and out voted. Their narrow and biased attitude must be outweighed by an attitude based on an understanding of natural processes.”

Ifs Process Understanding Nature Natural Animal Attitude Survival Species Limitation Voting Biased Hater Bad Attitude

Author:L. David Mech

“The key word is flexibility, the ability to adapt constantly. Darwin said it clearly. People thought that he mainly talked about survival of the fittest. What he said was that the species that survive are usually not the smartest or the strongest, but the ones most responsive to change. So being attentive to customers and potential partners is my best advice--after, of course, perseverance and patience.”

People Said Courses Ability Advice Keys Survival Species Perseverance Customers Partners Strongest Flexibility Best Advice Survival Of The Fittest Ability To Adapt

Author:Philippe Kahn

“Otter is the most brilliant mix of facts ancient and modern about the otter species and its vulnerability to man's seemingly insatiable need to hunt the poor animal for reasons other than survival. I am sure the book will help to ensure that the hunting of otters will never return to this country-and I hope other lands will follow this example . . . A fascinating and illuminating book.”

“The planet earth has a life span of eight billion years, give or take a few million. People have been around for approximately forty thousand years-a virtual blink in the cosmos. It is sad that we as a species are ravaging the natural world so fast that we are jeopardizing our survival. If we wipe ourselves out, it would be the height of folly, but the earth will survive even us. It will eventually restore itself. It might take a few thousand years, and it won't be just as it was before, but its life is stronger than death.”

“I find it extraordinary that a straightforward if inelegant device for ensuring the survival of the species should involve human beings in such emotional turmoil. Does sex have to be taken so seriously?”

Ifs Should Humans Doe Sex Human Beings Taken Emotional Survival Species Extraordinary Devices Straightforward Turmoil Being Straightforward Emotional Turmoil

Book:Devices and Desires

Source: Devices and Desires

“Accommodation to change, the thoughtful pursuit of alternative futures are keys to the survival of civilization and perhaps of the human species.”

Humans Keys Civilization Survival Species Pursuit Alternatives Thoughtful Human Species Accommodations

Book:Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

Source: Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science

“If we can avoid disaster for the next two centuries, our species should be safe as we spread into space. If we are the only intellegent beings in the galaxy we should make sure we survive and continue. . . . Our only chance of long-term survival is not to remain inward looking on planet Earth but to spread out into space. We have made remarkable progress in the last hundred years. But if we want to continue beyond the next hundred years, our future is in space.”

“...the nervous systems of other animals were not artificially constructed - as a robot might be artificially constructed - to mimic the pain behavior of humans. A capacity to feel pain obviously enhances a species' prospects of survival...it is surely unreasonable to suppose that nervous systems that are virtually identical physiologically, have a common origin and a common evolutionary function, and result in similar forms of behavior in similar circumstances should actually operate in an entirely different manner on the level of subjective feelings.”

“Space exploration must be undertaken not only out of simple human curiosity but also to further the survival of the species. The twentieth century has seen the unprecedented development and proliferation of magnificent technologies. Many of them, through design, ignorance, or misuse, are capable of destroying life as well as enhancing it. Space exploration alone holds the promise of eventual escape from a dying planet, provided we wisely manage our resources in the meantime and actually survive that long.”

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