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  • All of my work is based on nature. I grew up in a rural environment and living in the Bay Area allows for immediate access to wonderful natural environs. Basically nature is my Genus Loci, or the place where my spirit resides. -- Judith Anderson
  • Male, A member of the unconsidered or negligible gender. The male of the human race is commonly known to the female as Mere Man. The Genus has two varieties: good providers and bad providers. -- Ambrose Bierce
  • The female of the genus homo is economically dependent on the male. He is her food supply. -- Charlotte Perkins Gilman
  • Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species. -- Alfred Marshall
  • One would think that plants belonging to the same genus would always produce identical or at least similar oils. But this is by no means so. -- Otto Wallach
  • We are placed in the genus of Homo, which is Latin for man - Homo sapiens: supposedly wise men. I sometimes think - wonder - whether we really are wise men. -- Donald Johanson
  • To use the same words is not a sufficient guarantee of understanding; one must use the same words for the same genus of inward experience; ultimately one must have one's experiences in common. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
  • Of all mushrooms commonly consumed, oyster mushrooms in the genus Pleurotus stand out as exceptional allies for improving human and environmental health. These mushrooms enjoy a terrific reputation as the easiest to cultivate, richly nutritious and medicinally supportive. -- Paul Stamets
  • I had found again and again that the most aberrant population of a species - often having reached species rank, and occasionally classified even as a separate genus - occurred at a peripheral location, indeed usually at the most isolated peripheral location. -- Ernst Mayr
  • If there should prove to be one real, living Free State Democrat in Kansas, I suggest that it might be well to catch him and stuff and preserve his skin as an interesting specimen of that soon-to-be-extinct variety of the genus Democrat. -- Abraham Lincoln
  • The genus Drosophila is one of the great success stories. There's hundreds of species within the genus. They're on every continent except Antarctica, they're in tropical rain forests, they're in deserts, they've evolved many exotic mating behaviors, and they're capable of incredibly long-distance flights. -- Michael Dickinson
  • Man is the plumeless genus of bipeds, birds are the plumed. -- Plato
  • Flatterers are the worst kind of enemies. [Lat., Pessimum genus inimicorum laudantes.] -- Tacitus
  • All powerful money gives birth and beauty. [Lat., Et genus et formam regina pecunia donat.] -- Horace
  • It is the genus that gives the characters, and not the characters that make the genus. -- Carl Linnaeus
  • The townspeople are morons, yokels, peasants and genus homo boobiensis...surrounded by gaping primates from the upland vallies. -- H. L. Mencken
  • Producer's Surplus is a convenient name for the genus of which the rent of land is the leading species." -- Alfred Marshall
  • I used to think my father was an idiot, until I turned twenty-one... Then I thought he was a genus. -- Mark Twain
  • Afrikaner women are lower than rats, closer related to plants, just fit enough to be raped in an act of genus preservation. -- Nadine Gordimer
  • Though you strut proud of your money, yet fortune has not changed your birth. [Lat., Licet superbus ambules pecuniae, Fortuna non mutat genus.] -- Horace
  • God is not related to creatures as though belonging to a different "genus," but as transcending every "genus," and as the principle of all "genera. -- Thomas Aquinas
  • In omni adversitate fortunæ, infelicissimum genus est infortunii fuisse felicem In every adversity of fortune, to have been happy is the most unhappy kind of misfortune. -- Boethius
  • Who left nothing of authorship untouched, and touched nothing which he did not adorn. [Lat., Qui nullum fere scribendi genus non tetigit; nullum quod tetigit non ornavit.] -- Samuel Johnson
  • Another world exists that I must experience. A genus of people exists who I must meet. I must inhale the air they breathe--share their world at all costs. -- Hideo Kojima
  • If you have a clear idea of a soul, you will have a clear idea of a form; for it is of the same genus, though a different species. -- Gottfried Leibniz
  • Some cry: 'Love me!!' Others: 'Don't love me!!' But a certain genus, the worst and most unhappy, cries: 'Don't love me and be faithful to me!!' -- Albert Camus
  • He who abstains from anything animate ... will be much more careful not to injure those of his own species. For he who loves the genus will not hate any species of animals. -- Porphyry
  • The species and the genus are always the work of nature [i.e. specially created]; the variety mostly that of circumstance; the class and the order are the work of nature and art. -- Carl Linnaeus
  • The angels are a strange genus, they are precisely what they are and cannot be anything else. They are themselves soul-less beings who represent nothing but the thoughts and intuitions of their Lord. -- Carl Jung
  • Nomenclature, the other foundation of botany, should provide the names as soon as the classification is made... If the names are unknown knowledge of the things also perishes... For a single genus, a single name. -- Carl Linnaeus
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