Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction -… — Leos Carax Copy Share Image
“The romantic contrast between modern industry that “destroys nature” and our ancestors who “lived in harmony with nature” is groundless. Long before… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
By 1914, the royal families of Europe were inbred to the point of pantomine. You feel about them as you do about… — Nancy Banks-Smith Copy Share Image
With our evolved busy hands and our evolved busy brains, in an extraordinarily short period of time we've managed to alter the… — Kate Bernheimer Copy Share Image
During cycles long anterior to the creation of the human race, and while the surface of the globe was passing from one… — Roderick Murchison Copy Share Image
You are too much concerned with past and future. It is all due to your longing to continue, to protect yourself against… — Sri Nisargadatta Maharaj Copy Share Image
I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution… — Terence McKenna Copy Share Image
Therefore, this is a question of whether we, humans, can change our culture and begin to truly care for all Creation, nurture… — Shailesh Rao Copy Share Image
Wilberforce did not believe in either evolution or extinction. Owen believed in extinction but not evolution. Lamarck believed in evolution but not… — Sara Maitland Copy Share Image
I think we must ask ourselves if this is really what we want to do to God's creation, to drive it to… — Stuart L. Pimm Copy Share Image
In the year 2007, seals, otters, lions, turtles, frogs, apes, snakes, butterflies, polar bears, cheetahs, whales are disappearing along with their variously… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
Scratch any fortune and you'll find blood only a generation or two back...child labor in mines or mills...Slavery. Drugs. Stock swindles. Wasting… — Chuck Palahniuk Copy Share Image
“Its demise was part of a wave of disappearances that has come to be known as the megafauna extinction. This wave coincided… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We don't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. We have to… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
What is your personal carrying capacity for grief, rage, despair? We are living in a period of mass extinction. The numbers stand… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
“There is a name for the tsunami wave of extermination: the Holocene extinction event. There's no asteroid this time, only human behavior,… — Lierre Keith Copy Share Image
By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be… — Stuart L. Pimm Copy Share Image
This is a strange book: visionary and dark. It stutters out a kind of music: repeated phrases which accumulate errors and mutate… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Order, for a liberal, means only peace; and the hope of a profound peace was one of the chief motives in the… — George Santayana Copy Share Image
Thanks to art, instead of seeing one world only, our own, we see that world multiply itself and we have at our… — Marcel Proust Copy Share Image
For if that last day does not occasion an entire extinction, but a change of abode only, what can be more desirable?… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
Trillions of years into the future, when all stars are gone...all parts of the cosmos will cool to the same temperature as… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Environmentalists like to say that defeats are permanent, victories temporary. Extinction, like death, is forever, but protection needs to be maintained. But… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Humanity is creating an extinction event that will make every war ever fought a footnote to history. We belong to the only… — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly,… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had… — Zoe Helene Copy Share Image
“Perhaps our and Gaia’s greatest error was the conscious abuse of fire. Cooking meat over a wood fire may have been acceptable,… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
It can be fairly argued that the highest priority for mankind is to save itself from extinction. However, it can also be… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
“The living world has become impoverished. Species are being lost every day. Energy and other resources are nearing exhaustion. The environment is… — Christian de Duve Copy Share Image
Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I've accepted the fact that there's a beginning and end to everything. All species are born, evolve, and then die off. We're… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
One of the many things I do not understand about Americans is this: what is it like to be a citizen of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Our biggest challenges for the ocean and for the planet are problems of perception. People need to understand that species extinctions, habitat… — Edith Widder Copy Share Image
Eventually, the Sun will swell to occupy the entire sky as its expansion subsumes the orbit of earth. Earth's surface temperature will… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical,… — Barry Lopez Copy Share Image
