Species Quotations | Page 2

People want to point to the Endangered Species Act success stories, and there's no question about it, it has been a success. But not to the point that the bald eagle can be taken off the list in significant areas of the country.

Pombo's bill would rip the heart out of the Endangered Species Act. It would leave the act in tatters.

PORTUGUESE, n.pl. A species of geese indigenous to Portugal. They are mostly without feathers and imperfectly edible, even when stuffed with garlic.

Exploration is an oft-lauded human activity, and one that resonates in the same way that music and good stories do. It's hard-wired into our species (and into many others), no doubt because it has survival value. Exploration occasionally rewards those who accept its risks, usually with new resources.

Each year, I await with dread the federal government's catalog of endangered and threatened species in the Hawaiian Islands, where I was raised and where I live.

The chance of any species reaching and then surviving on an island as distant as one of the Hawaiian chain is infinitesimal, but despite the extraordinary odds, plants and seeds found their way ashore, carried by the tide or blown by trade winds, inside birds or in their feathers, in the branches of trees and in the jetsam of sunken ships.

There are nine species ahead of the grizzly bear. We are already eating into next year's budget for species listings.

There are some species which may flower, which we normally don't take much notice of. To be honest, we don't know what they are. But it is worth keeping an eye out to see more unusual displays given that it's such an unusual weather pattern.

We can't afford to let these destructive rodents get a foothold in this watershed. Once an aggressive non-native species ... gains a foothold, the long-term costs become enormous.

We can show that there are differences in the profiles of chemicals that come from the tissue, and these tissue profiles can be used to diagnose a particular disease or determine how far the disease has progressed. We reported in a previous paper, and it is highlighted in the current article, that there are differences in profiles of chemical species from the tissue, indicating a diseased area and also the margin at which that diseased area is separated from the non-diseased area of the tissue.