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“Far from being the smartest possible biological species, we are probably better thought of as the stupidest possible biological species capable of starting a technological civilization - a niche we filled because we got there first, not because we are in any sense optimally adapted to it.”
― Nick Bostrom, Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies

“Philosophers call this state of isolation and disconnection 鈥渟pecies loneliness鈥濃€攁 deep, unnamed sadness stemming from estrangement from the rest of Creation, from the loss of relationship. As our human dominance of the world has grown, we have become more isolated, more lonely when we can no longer call out to our neighbors. It鈥檚 no wonder that naming was the first job the Creator gave Nanabozho.”
― Robin Wall Kimmerer, Braiding Sweetgrass: Indigenous Wisdom, Scientific Knowledge, and the Teachings of Plants

“No one has the rights to summon you. Only Stardust. And that because she鈥檚 your mother and not the queen.”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

“Every mystery ever solved had been a puzzle from the dawn of the human species right up until someone solved it.”
― Eliezer Yudkowsky, Harry Potter and the Methods of Rationality

“If surviving and passing on one鈥檚 genes is the whole point, then animals do it much better. And they do it without cribbing. We humans, however, find it difficult to even survive. We crib a lot. We are bogged down by our thoughts.”
― Abhaidev, The Meaninglessness of Meaning

“In marriage, we鈥檙e equals. You鈥檙e not only a babymaker; I didn鈥檛 need to marry you if it was only for that. You鈥檙e my life partner. The whole nine yards of it.”
― Andri E. Elia, Yildun: Worldmaker of Yand

“Most of the time, it felt like my father and I were completely different species. Possibly literally, depending on the day and whether or not I actually qualified as human at the time.”
― Jennifer Lynn Barnes, Every Other Day

“Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an organic being; and as we do not see the cause, we invoke cataclysms to desolate the world, or invent laws on the duration of the forms of life!”
― Charles Darwin, The Origin of Species

“[On Schopenhauer in Black and White] Schopenhauer's views of love are flawed. Love can't be merely an illusion of the mind to aid in procreation, but the path to redemption for an otherwise violently selfish species. Past human greatness has proven that when challenged, love can overpower impulsive instinct, and in essence, the vilest aspects of our nature.”
― Tiffany Madison

“How else could you explain a sapient species that had overpopulated itself to the point of environmental collapse? This was a people that had coupled themselves stupid.”
― Becky Chambers, The Long Way to a Small, Angry Planet

“We proclaim human intelligence to be morally valuable per se because we are human. If we were birds, we would proclaim the ability to fly as morally valuable per se. If we were fish, we would proclaim the ability to live underwater as morally valuable per se. But apart from our obviously self-interested proclamations, there is nothing morally valuable per se about human intelligence.”
― GaryLFrancione

“I have argued that this sort of thinking is problematic in at least two regards:

First, the notion that nonhuman animals do not have an interest in continued existence鈥攖hat they do not have an interest in their lives鈥攊nvolves relying on a speciesist concept of what sort of self-awareness matters morally. I have argued that every sentient being necessarily has an interest in continued existence鈥攅very sentient being values her or his life鈥攁nd that to say that only those animals (human animals) who have a particular sort of self-awareness have an interest in not being treated as commodities begs the fundamental moral question. Even if, as some maintain, nonhuman animals live in an 鈥渆ternal present鈥濃€攁nd I think that is empirically not the case at the very least for most of the nonhumans we routinely exploit who do have memories of the past and a sense of the future鈥攖hey have, in each moment, an interest in continuing to exist. To say that this does not count morally is simply speciesist.

Second, even if animals do not have an interest in continuing to live and only have interests in not suffering, the notion that, as a practical matter, we will ever be able to accord those interests the morally required weight is simply fantasy. The notion that we property owners are ever going to accord any sort of significant weight to the interests of property in not suffering is simply unrealistic. Is it possible in theory? Yes. Is it possible as a matter of practicality in the real world. Absolutely not. Welfarists often talk about treating 鈥渇armed animals鈥� in the way that we treat dogs and cats whom we love and regard as members of our family. Does anyone really think that is practically possible? The fact that we would not think of eating our dogs and cats is some indication that it is not.”
― GaryLFrancione

“Humility is a virtue of the heavenly, not arrogance. Are we the most superior beast on earth? No, not in strength and not in intelligence. It is very arrogant to assume that we are the most intelligent species when we keep repeating the same mistakes over and over again. Both rats and monkeys have been shown to learn from error, yet we have not. More people have died in the name of religion than any other cause on earth. Is massacring God鈥檚 creations really serving God 鈥� or the devil? And what father would want to see his children constantly divided and fighting? What God would allow a single human life to be sacrificed for monetary gain? Again, the Creator or the devil?”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Knowing someone who belongs to another species can enlarge your soul in surprising ways.”
― Sy Montgomery, How To Be A Good Creature: A Memoir in Thirteen Animals

“And then there was that key point in On the Origin of Species. That crucial point that somehow both David and before him Francis Galton had missed. What does Darwin say is the best way of building a strong species, of allowing it to endure into the future, to withstand the blows of Chaos in all her mighty forms鈥攆lood, drought, rising sea levels, fluctuating temperatures, invasions of competitors, predators, pests?

Variation. Variation in genes, and hence in behavior and physical traits. Homogeneity is a death sentence. To rid a species of its mutants and outliers is to make that species dangerously vulnerable to the elements.”
― Lulu Miller, Why Fish Don鈥檛 Exist: A Story of Loss, Love, and the Hidden Order of Life

“Golden eagles don`t mate with bald eagles, deer don`t mate with antelope, gray wolves don`t mate with red wolves. Just look at domesticated animals, at mongrel dogs, and mixed breed horses, and you`ll know the Great Mystery didn`t intend them to be that way. We weakened the species and introduced disease by mixing what should be kept seperate. Among humans, intermarriage weakens the respect people have for themselves and for their traditions. It undermines clarity of spirit and mind.”
― Russell Means, Where White Men Fear to Tread: The Autobiography of Russell Means

“Only after you've done the exorcism, then
you'll understand that ghost's also a species.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Just imagine, among 8.7 million species, only one has become smart enough to ponder over the meaning of life. This simple evolutionary fact itself implies the gravitas of human life.”
― Abhijit Naskar

“Everyone wants to rule the world . . . Really, absolutely everyone. That's what it's all about, isn't it? That's what it's always about in the end. And every species believes it's number one. Every individual is firmly convinced that he or she alone has the right to ascend to the throne and issue orders to get rid of others. And in reality everyone is fooling themselves, because up there on the throne it's lonely and cold.”
― Akif Pirin莽ci, Felidae

“Just as a concept becomes a unit when integrated with others into a wider concept, so a genus becomes a single unit, a species, when integrated with others into a wider genus. For instance, 鈥渢able鈥� is a species of the genus 鈥渇urniture,鈥� which is a species of the genus 鈥渉ousehold goods,鈥� which is a species of the genus 鈥渕an-made objects.鈥� 鈥淢an鈥� is a species of the genus 鈥渁nimal,鈥� which is a species of the genus 鈥渙rganism,鈥� which is a species of the genus 鈥渆ntity.”
― Ayn Rand, The Ayn Rand Lexicon: Objectivism from A to Z

“Our differences are fascinating, but our similarities make us human.”
― Heather E. Heying, A Hunter-Gatherer's Guide to the 21st Century: Evolution and the Challenges of Modern Life

“the updated 2016 State of Nature report discovered that the UK has lost significantly more biodiversity over the long term than the world average. Ranked twenty-ninth lowest out of 218 countries, we are among the most nature-depleted countries in the world.”
― Isabella Tree, Wilding

“. . . most humans were not so good at grasping aspects of nature that couldn't be clearly defined or placed into hierarchies, even though nature's products were 'seldom organized into species at all.' Now [Charlie Vernon] saw that, considered over vast geographical space and long swathes of geological time, coral species were malleable and temporary units, fluidly interlinked by their genes to other units, and forming ever-changing patterns. Corals had to be treated as continua, not as fixed, isolated units.”
― Iain McCalman, The Reef: A Passionate History: The Great Barrier Reef from Captain Cook to Climate Change

“According to these theories, in order for our species to thrive, the weak must die out. It is not only okay for the weak to die, but essential. It is best for our species if the oppressed, the addicted, and the afflicted die, because it will rid our gene pool of the weak. Those at the top of the food chain can do whatever they want, even if it means harming and exploiting others, because as long as they reproduce their dominant genes, they will give future generations of humanity a better shot. This is what an existence looks like that is reduced to evolutionary biology and is void of morality.”
― Michael J Heil, Pursued: God鈥檚 relentless pursuit and a drug addict鈥檚 journey to finding purpose

“To protect and preserve our shared planet, it is our responsibility to save species which are about to be extinct.”
― Tariku Bogale

“Environmentalists like to say that defeats are permanent, victories temporary. Extinction, like death, is forever, but protection needs to be maintained. But now, in a world where restoration ecology is becoming increasingly important, it turns out that even defeats aren't always permanent. Across the United States and Europe, dams have been removed, wetlands and rivers restored, once-vanished native species reintroduced, endangered species regenerated.”
― Rebecca Solnit, Hope in the Dark: Untold Histories, Wild Possibilities

“Entire Creation Breath in it's Own Rhythm from the Existence itself " - /鈥鈥 T鈭哊v鈧偓蟺 \鈥鈥�/”
― Tanveer Hossain Mullick

“- 'SPiRITUALITY' - [ 'SPiRIT' | 'RITUAL' | 'REALITY' ] : **Not Exceptional - Spirit - as 'Soul' | Ritual - as 'Medium' | Reality - as Experience' - 'Soul itself a medium of Experience the Realty via Gifted Power of - 'Senses' which exist - 'HUman'.
The Exercise for - 'Meditation' Process :
First Make yourself comfortable & relaxed with Place - 'Sit or Sleep - Straight align
Spine' with your Body. [ Basic Exercise : start with 'Mussel Relaxation' then 'be calm' ]

/鈥鈥 T鈭哊v鈧偓蟺 \鈥鈥�/”
― Tanveer Hossain Mullick

“What's so advanced in being the master of war, we're advanced when we rise master of peace!”
― Abhijit Naskar, Azad Earth Army: When The World Cries Blood

“...: the terrible things human beings are capable of doing to each other. We are a peculiar species.”
― Alice Feeney, Beautiful Ugly