In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The struggle to save every possible species and ecosystem from the current wave of destruction is worthwhile. One day, perhaps within our… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
It is together that we will be able to save our biodiversity. This is a principle of effectiveness. But it is also… — Albert II, Prince of Monaco Copy Share Image
So science alone cannot solve this problem [mass extinction of humans]. It's something that we can only tackle by bringing science together… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didnt pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
“Anyone who truly wants to escape human solipsism should not seek out empty places. Instead of fleeing to desert, where they will… — John Gray Copy Share Image
I used to go to church. I even went through a rather intense religious period when I was sixteen. But the idea… — Louis Auchincloss Copy Share Image
We discover too late that we have turned a blind eye to the extinction of a species that is essential to the… — Rowan Williams Copy Share Image
Oil is dead, on its way to extinction. As a group of citizens we must speak up and act towards ending fracking.… — Ian Somerhalder Copy Share Image
Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
With respect to phenomena like mass extinction, somebody might say why worry about it because in a geological perspective mass extinctions aren't… — Richard Lewontin Copy Share Image
The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
Men's bodies are our women's works of art. Given to us power of control, we will never carelessly throw them in to… — Olive Schreiner Copy Share Image
“We killed them all when we came here. The people came and burned their land The forests where they used to feed… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but is much more rapid than allowing the response… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
When people look back at their childhood or youth, their wistfulness comes from the memory, not of what their lives had been… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“One may picture, too, the sudden shifting of the attention, the swiftly spreading coils and bellyings of that blackness advancing headlong, towering… — H.G. Wells Copy Share Image
If we return abruptly to a Miocene-like climate, it's reasonable to think that we would experience a lot of extinctions, and maybe… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present paradigm… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
“We are the hands and eyes and ears, the sensitive probing feelers through which the emergent, intelligent universe comes to know its… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image
Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder… — Arthur Levitt Copy Share Image
If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at… — Henry Rollins Copy Share Image
For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“In the twenty-first century, those who ride the train of progress will acquire divine abilities of creation and destruction, while those left… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all… — Gaylord Nelson Copy Share Image
The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no… — Bill Mollison Copy Share Image
The only way to save a rhinoceros is to save the environment in which it lives, because there's a mutual dependency between… — David Attenborough Copy Share Image
This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make… — Peter Garrett Copy Share Image
Egypt is home to the largest Christian population in the Middle East, largely because they've been persecuted to brink of extinction everywhere… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
“As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
“The Extinction of the Human Race now underway. Watch it live as it happens - Is it too late to stop it?… — Michael Mathiesen Copy Share Image
Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image