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
It's a fair guess that at the rate we're destroying habitat, especially but not exclusively in the tropics, we're pushing to extinction… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity,… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public… — Abraham Lincoln 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
We're handing them [young people & future generations] a climate system which is potentially out of their control. We're in an emergency:… — James Hansen 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
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
“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
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
7 plus Billion Human Beings…The Era of Ultimate Connection, yet no real connections at all…The True Trilogy of Terror has begun…Fear, Sloth,… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. we did'nt pass it to our children in the bloodstream. it must… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
“Homo rapiens is only one of very many species, and not obviously worth preserving. Later or sooner, it will become extinct. When… — John N. Gray Copy Share Image
Climate has always changed. It always has and always will. Sea level has always changed. Ice sheets come and go. Life always… — Ian Plimer Copy Share Image
The number of people in the world engaged in this search for catastrophic impactors totals one or two dozen. How long into… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Our march toward self-annihilation has already obliterated ninety percent of the large fish in the oceans and wiped out half of the… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
Studying elephants is like going back into prehistoric times. In size, elephants are the closest thigns we have to dinosaurs. There are… — Roland Smith Copy Share Image
Re. the Caribbean Conservation Corporation Everybody in the organization has subscribed to the original concept that its most important attributes are a… — Archie Carr Copy Share Image
Sometimes in the ignorance I feel the meaning Invincible invisible wisdom, And I commune with intuitive instinct With the force that made… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
We're not just being dramatic talking about a human extinction - that's the pathway we're on. We have to look at the… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
There's a fundamental difference, if you look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilisation, that's out there exploring… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
After all, if you have the majority of customers, then what you do becomes the standard. Your competitors have little choice but… — Douglas Gwyn Copy Share Image
“Don’t believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
We should not knowingly allow any species or race to go extinct. And let us go beyond mere salvage to begin the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When you're a hammer (as the saying goes), all your problems look like nails. If you're a meteorite expert pondering the sudden… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Who in the world has not yearned for a loved one, has never said, If only he or she could come back… — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
'Revelation assures us that 'righteousness exalteth a nation.' Communities are dealt with in this world by the wise and just Ruler of… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
We are clearcutting virgin forests around the world, and 95 percent of species in the clearcut zone have never been studied. So… — Horst Rechelbacher Copy Share Image
“Of course, if diprotodons had been the only large animal to disappear at this time, it might have been just a fluke.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“True. And there are an infinite number of universes, of course, in which we don't exist at all - that is, no… — Fredric Brown Copy Share Image
The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image