Species Behavior Quotes

As a species, we're addicted to the facile discrimination involved in saying that something or phenomenon is either 'this' or 'that' - how much more uncomfortable that it may well be 'the other'.

We're the only species who hunts for sport.

No known human group... simply throw out its dead without any ritual or ceremony. In stark contrast, no animal practices burial of dead individuals of its own species.

Every bird will follow it's specie.

Never trust a species that grins all the time. It’s up to something.

Every species has its pub.

There is nothing biologically unusual about a homosexual act of pseudocopulation. Many species indulge in this, under a variety of circumstances.

We are the species that clamors to be lied to.

When you understand a species' art, you understand that species.

When a cocker spaniel bites, it does so as a member of its species; it is never anything but a dog. When a pit bull bites, it does so as a member of its breed. A pit bull is never anything but a pit bull.

My premise is that there's something hardwired into our DNA, that we as a species came and evolved from caves and clans and tribes, and therefore, we as a species care more about the things that are local to us than we care about the things that are 'over there' from us.

The Auditors fluttered anxiously. And, as always happens in their species when something goes radically wrong and needs fixing instantly, they settled down to try to work how who was to blame.

If you don't have manufactured items or anything we think of as 'civilization,' then you're living according to your species.

When I watch species other than my own, their instinct's wisdom is what most impresses and disturbs me.

As a species, we're always seeking out authenticity. We're dying for authenticity. We smell it immediately, and we also smell even the slightest riff of somebody who's not completely true to who they are. We have that ability because, as a species, we have organized around stories. We tell them and we subscribe to them.

We're a fast-moving, needy species.

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.