“This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive.” — Rivera Sun Copy Share Image
Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man. — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction. — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“Birds were also hard-hit; perhaps three-quarters of all bird families, perhaps more, went extinct.” — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“You live with the threat of my extinction. I live with it too.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
The money to be made is clearly more important than the extinctions we cause, including our own. — Guy R. McPherson Copy Share Image
The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people. — Joyce Carol Oates Copy Share Image
The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Today, due to the massive Chinese population transfer, the nation of Tibet truly faces the threat of extinction, along with its unique… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“A sign in the Hall of Biodiversity offers a quote from the Stanford ecologist Paul Ehrlich: IN PUSHING OTHER SPECIES TO EXTINCTION,… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“You go into extinction by being obsessed about becoming something else and then travelling in the wrong car while your real self… — Israelmore Ayivor Copy Share Image
This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
The State of liberated Being can be reached only by "dying"; but (this) dying does not consist in destruction of the body;… — Ramana Maharshi Copy Share Image
Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only… — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Extinction is the beginning of the path: it is traveling to God Most High. Guidance comes afterwards. What I mean by guidance… — Ibn Ata Allah Copy Share Image
Has joy any survival value in the operations of evolution? I suspect that it does; I suspect that the morose and fearful… — Edward Abbey Copy Share Image
It saddens me that in the 21st century, with all our knowledge and power, we are hearing more and more stories of… — Gisele Bundchen Copy Share Image
No one knows the diversity in the world, not even to the nearest order of magnitude. ... We don't know for sure… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
Everywhere in science the talk is of winners, patents, pressures, money, no money, the rat race, the lot; things that are so… — June Goodfield Copy Share Image
There is a beginning and end to all life - and to all human endeavors. Species evolve and die off. Empires rise,… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
“The cause of these great extinctions, the most extensive in the seventy-million-year record for mammals, is a mystery. The two prevailing guesses,… — Stephen J. O'Brien Copy Share Image
“The Antropocene is usually said to have begun with the industrial revolution, or perhaps even later, with the explosive growth in population… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“The Everglades are dying. Nearly half of their 4 million acres have been swallowed up by sprawl and sugarcane. Almost 70 plant… — Steven Kotler Copy Share Image
In this modern world of ours many people seem to think that science has somehow made such religious ideas as immortality untimely… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
'Extinction' issue. Save the species for whom??? Humans' convenience, of course! Individuals of the species are snatched from their homes/family/habitat/held in captivity/forced… — Adela Popescu Copy Share Image
Human use of fossil fuels is altering the chemistry of the atmosphere; oceans are polluted and depleted of fish; 80 per cent… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
With a few exceptions like Kraftwerk, most great 20th century Western music is in some way American-based. And the great paradox of… — Steve Erickson Copy Share Image
We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight. — David Foreman Copy Share Image
“Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.” — Richard Ford Copy Share Image
A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction. — J. G. Ballard Copy Share Image
America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching. — Nick Clooney Copy Share Image
“During a mass extinction, vast swathes of the tree are cut short, as if attacked by crazed, axe-wielding madmen.” — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
For the complete extinction of the state, complete Communism is necessary. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
