Extinction Quotes · Page 6

The first "station of separation" corresponds to the state of the ordinary man who perceives the universe as distinct from God. Starting…

— Abdelkader El Djezairi

A species may eat a particular bacterium, phytoplankton, smaller fish, or plant in an area. Lacking a predator, these species/populations will overgrow…

— Thom Hartmann

Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.

— Barbara Block

Earth, earthriding your merry-go-roundtoward extinction,right to the rootsthickening the oceans like gravy,festering in your caves,you are becoming a latrine.

— Anne Sexton

“Papuan extinction is a systematised, structured, programmed, manufactured, engineered, monitored, funded, managed, organised, systematic, highly planned, bureaucratised, corporatised, institutionalised, civilisationalised, projected and…

— Yamin Kogoya

As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will…

— Murray Bookchin

'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

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

A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

— Thomas Hardy

I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. . . . Sometimes I…

— Bill Watterson

As long as a branch of science offers an abundance of problems, so long it is alive; a lack of problems foreshadows…

— David Hilbert

Don't forget this club nearly went out of extinction last year.

— Alan Smith

The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space…

— Larry Niven

No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that…

— Thomas Malthus

The diversity of life on Earth, generally, is astonishing. But despite those large numbers, it's also important to recognize that every species,…

— Sylvia Earle

America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.

— Nick Clooney

Seventy percent of Earth's surface is water and over 99 percent is uninhabited, so you would expect nearly all impactors to hit…

— Neil deGrasse Tyson

More than at any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other,…

— Woody Allen

“This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive.”

— Rivera Sun

Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to…

— Kim Harrison

Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like…

— Mahatma Gandhi

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

This is a strange book: visionary and dark. It stutters out a kind of music: repeated phrases which accumulate errors and mutate…

— Rae Armantrout

Looking around the world at these wildlife, it's abundantly clear that humans have benefited from nature in so many ways but have…

— Ian Somerhalder

For thousands of years it has been understood that, just as civilizations have to come to an end, there can even be…

— Peter Kingsley