“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
“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
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
Just one Bush justice on the court means left-wingers might have to start actually winning votes for their wacky ideas; a prescription… — Jay Severin Copy Share Image
Our people still need support. Support us through writing your government officials. We are still on the verge of extinction, with continued… — Leonard Peltier Copy Share Image
All over the world there must be far-reaching changes in animal behavior and habitat; if only one could have another life in… — Brian Aldiss 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
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 Copy Share Image
The destruction of this planet would have no significance on a cosmic scale: to an observer in the Andromeda nebula, the sign… — Stanley Kubrick 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
“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
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
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
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
Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate… — Margaret Atwood 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
“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
Our problem with limited resources is not primarily overpopulation; it is greed. Our problem with pollution is not the invention of fluorocarbons… — Winkie Pratney Copy Share Image
“I shall not assess arguments and evidence for competing views about when human extinction will occur. We know it will occur, and… — David Benatar Copy Share Image
“Without death there is little innovation. Extinction - death of a species - is part and parcel of evolutionary change. In the… — Richard Fortey Copy Share Image
More than any other time in history, mankind faces a crossroads. One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to… — Woody Allen 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
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
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
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
All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
“Over the past 400 years, the extinction rate for mammals appears to be between 17 percent and 377 percent faster than normal.” — Anthony D. Barnosky Copy Share Image
“Freedom of religion is not enough; we need the extinction of it, because no one has turned to be a religious by… — M.F. Moonzajer Copy Share Image
There is one living organism, called a tardigrade, that has survived the five great mass extinctions on Earth, and it can survive… — Alycia Debnam Carey Copy Share Image
I cannot concur with those who advocate saving gorillas from extinction by killing and capturing more free-living individuals only to exhibit them… — Dian Fossey Copy Share Image
Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely… — Robert Kiyosaki Copy Share Image
The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
“You know, we might’ve fucked up the planet, sucking out all the oil, melting ice caps, allowing ska music to flourish, but… — Joe Hill Copy Share Image
“Alroy has described the megafauna extinction as a "geologically instantaneous ecological catastrophe too gradual to be perceived by the people who unleashed… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
To drive to extinction something He has created is wrong. He has a purpose for everything... We Christians have a responsibility to… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image