Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction. — Wade Davis Copy Share Image
EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state. — Ambrose Bierce Copy Share Image
We live in a time where we have more extinction happening on our planet than since the dinosaurs were wiped out 50… — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
One day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the… — Ronald Reagan 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
Species are going extinct because of habitat loss and warming. I feel deeply responsible and think about it every day. — Peter Heller Copy Share Image
No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that… — Thomas Malthus 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
Why fight the 'natural' (oh, weaselly word!) order of things? Why? Because of this--one fine day, a purely predatory world shall consume… — David Mitchell 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
Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are… — Klaus Topfer Copy Share Image
We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We,… — Michael Smith Copy Share Image
We have a planet that is at risk, where resources don't have a permanent life. We are going to have to make… — Desmond Tutu Copy Share Image
My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in… — Fernando Pessoa 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
Many scientists would argue that we are now in what is called Extinction, and it's caused by this perfect extinction storm: climate… — Jeff Corwin Copy Share Image
“It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective… — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
The strain of constant adaptation to so many fearful events and discoveries is already too much to bear with sanity; one has… — Janet Frame Copy Share Image
“There can be no doubt that the existing Fauna and Flora is but the last term of a long series of equally… — Thomas Henry Huxley Copy Share Image
In the beginning, there were bacteria… [A] nearly universal assumption is that all subsequent life descended from the original life form through… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
“Biodiversity is a result of the process of evolution, and it is also a safety net that helps keep that process going.… — Bill Nye Copy Share Image
Marxism teaches that exploitation and degradation somehow produce resistance and revolution. It's been hard to say why. What I've learned from women's… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“It is possibly true that intelligent life with a sophisticated technology is needed for the eventual survival of life. Dinosaurs and many… — Jamal Nazrul Islam Copy Share Image
“almost every species that has ever existed is extinct; extinction is the rule, survival is the exception.” — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it. — George C. Williams Copy Share Image
The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing. — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
Cultures have gone down and rebuilt again and I'm sure we're all facing the same level of extinction. — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
The only thing we can't buy more of is time." she said. "And dodo birds. We can't buy any more of them.… — Dean Koontz Copy Share Image
Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only when they are on the verge of extinction. — Paul Craig Roberts 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
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
Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn't we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our… — Bill Joy 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
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
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
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
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
There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there… — Larry Kramer Copy Share Image
Nevertheless so profound is our ignorance, and so high our presumption, that we marvel when we hear of the extinction of an… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
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