One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
If we drive our fellow species to extinction, we will leave a far more desolate planet for our descendants than the world… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
“Human race had never planned to show up in this universe. I wonder whether current human efforts are relevant to its sustainability.” — Toba Beta Copy Share Image
An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction. — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of… — Matthew Arnold Copy Share Image
“I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may… — Stephen King Copy Share Image
If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we… — James L. Farmer, Jr Copy Share Image
All geologic history is full of the beginning and the ends of species-of their first and last days; but it exhibits no… — Hugh Miller Copy Share Image
The passenger pigeon, the golden toad, the Caspian tiger: they are all gone, and other species hang by a thread. Our actions… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. . . . Sometimes I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
If you're a conservation biologist in many fields, you're seeing your study subject disappear. People are in the position where they're chronicling… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“In more recent years, I've increasingly reported on specific cases where the interests of individual animals seem to conflict with the goal… — Emma Marris Copy Share Image
Cheetah genes cooperate with cheetah genes but not with camel genes, and vice versa. This is not because cheetah genes, even in… — Richard Dawkins Copy Share Image
And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by… — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
A billion homo sapiens are added every 11 years to the planet. The hypertrophy of a single species pushes other life-forms out… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“the center of the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Biodiversity, there’s an exhibit embedded in the floor. The exhibit is… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“Naysayers at their polite best chided the rewilders for romanticizing the past; at their sniping worst, for tempting a 'Jurassic Park' disaster.… — William Stolzenburg Copy Share Image
“Imagine a single survivor, a lonely fugitive at large on mainland Mauritius at the end of the seventeenth century. Imagine this fugitive… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“In ordinary times—times here understood to mean whole geologic epochs—extinction takes place only very rarely, more rarely even than speciation, and it… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“The point I want to make about methanogens is that they were the losers in the race through a bottleneck, yet nonetheless… — Nick Lane Copy Share Image
Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
We need to take a leaf out of natures book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite,… — Daniel Suarez Copy Share Image
“Another expert, David Jablonski, characterizes mass extinctions as “substantial biodiversity losses” that occur rapidly and are “global in extent.” — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning… — Philip Wylie Copy Share Image
Living wild species are like a library of books still unread. Our heedless destruction of them is akin to burning the library… — John Dingell Copy Share Image
The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem… — Marcus Tullius Cicero Copy Share Image
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction… — Calvin Coolidge Copy Share Image
I'm not talking about losing [agricultural] diversity in the same way that you lose your car keys. I'm talking about losing it… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest… — Derrick Jensen Copy Share Image
If we don't cut carbon's money pipeline, we will pay for their gasoline with floods, droughts, fires, super storms, drowned cities, mass… — Robert F. Kennedy, Jr Copy Share Image
People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct… — Betty White Copy Share Image
“You’re hurt,” she commented. And I care? Okay. It’s official. I’m my own species now: pathetic-deathwish-osaurus…I sooo hear extinction calling me.” — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff Copy Share Image
The value of biodiversity is that it makes our ecosystems more resilient, which is a prerequisite for stable societies; its wanton destruction… — Johan Rockstrom Copy Share Image
“The extinction of all reality is a concept no resignation can encompass. Until annihilation comes. And all grand ideas are seen for… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
The principles of my works... are the extinction of expression, permanent covering and contemplative tranquillity... My ideal is the completely dark picture,… — Arnulf Rainer Copy Share Image
We're losing a species every few seconds. We cannot put them back. If we change our mind and say, 'Oops, we made… — W. S. Merwin Copy Share Image
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