Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. Thats ridiculous. If you rid the earth of… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
All life pulsates in time to the Earth and our artificial fields cause abnormal reactions in all organisms... Increasing electropollution could set… — Robert O. Becker Copy Share Image
To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the… — Jared Diamond Copy Share Image
For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century… We are now heaving more than a thousand different species… — Douglas Adams Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
Well lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than weve lost in the last 65 million years. If… — Paul Watson 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
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
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
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 history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an… — Cameron Russell Copy Share Image
[On women:] We are all yeses. We are worthy enough, we passed inspection, we survived the great fetal oocyte extinctions. In that… — Natalie Angier Copy Share Image
There are 7 million species of animals on the planet and we’re the only ones of all of them who have walked… — Jo Robinson Copy Share Image
Climate change, habitat destruction, extinctions - the Earth has seen it all before, thousands of years ago. And humans may have been… — Tatiana Schlossberg Copy Share Image
The fate of hundreds of thousands of species on this planet may be decided in the next decade. To slow the rush… — Eban Goodstein Copy Share Image
“Few problems are less recognized, but more important than, the accelerating disappearance of the earth’s biological resources. In pushing other species to… — Peter P. Marra Copy Share Image
We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago, ... There's… — Denis Hayes Copy Share Image
The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“Left alone, the Florida panther would be remembered as a textbook exercise on how to go extinct while your abundant and vociferous… — Stephen J. O'Brien Copy Share Image
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference,… — Robert M. Hutchins Copy Share Image
Economic localization is the key to sustaining biological and cultural diversity - to sustaining life itself. The sooner we shift towards the… — Helena Norberg-Hodge Copy Share Image
Every good journalist is aware that his trade may one day go the way of phrenology-and, what's more, the population will hardly… — David Remnick Copy Share Image
Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
“There is a silence in the imminence of animals and also in the echo of their noise, but the dread silence is… — Peter Matthiessen Copy Share Image
“A race who lives on just one planet is doomed. Eventually, something will happen, whether an alien invasion, an unfortunately proximate pulsar,… — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about… — Lisa Randall Copy Share Image
We should continue to mobilise against the destruction of the world's great habitats, and its terrifying implications. But the most persuasive argument… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
Science devises ever bloodier means of war until humanity's powers of destruction overcome our powers of creation and our civilisation drives itself… — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
“One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations… — Douglas Tallamy Copy Share Image
Part of what I wanted to do in my book was point out that we have almost reached the point where we… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
“Is this how it is for a species that senses it is going extinct? Is there a feeling of loneliness, or unease,… — Rick Bass Copy Share Image
One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books… — Lance Morrow Copy Share Image
The extinction of Homo Sapiens would mean survival for millions, if not billions, of Earth-dwelling species. Phasing out the human race will… — Ingrid Newkirk Copy Share Image
It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save… — Joel Sartore Copy Share Image
Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations… — Ernst Mayr Copy Share Image
...An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's… — Nicole Krauss Copy Share Image
![“[On women:] We are all yeses. We are worthy enough, we passed inspection, we survived the great fetal oocyte extinctions. In that sense, at least - call it a mechanospiritual sense - we are meant to be. We are good eggs, every one of us.” quote by Natalie Angier](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/901/natalie-angier-21271_eggs_on-women-we-are-all-yeses-we-are-worthy_272801.jpg)
![“Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral obligation, to repair some of the damage.” quote by Anonymous](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/67d/anonymous-1_ability_humans-have-made-a-huge-hole-in-nature-i_1701417.jpg)
