We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
A decade down the line, I don't want to sit back and think that I didn't do anything to stop disasters like… — Abhay Deol 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
The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing. — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
“Three hundred types of mussel, a third of the world’s total, live in the Smokies. Smokies mussels have terrific names, like purple… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you… — Bill Bryson 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
This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will be treated at some length in the fourth chapter; and we shall then see how… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. — David Mitchell Copy Share Image
The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss. — Darren Shan 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
There is a beginning and end to all life - and to all human endeavors. Species evolve and die off. Empires rise,… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we… — Cary Fowler Copy Share Image
The fate of the vast majority of species on this planet has been extinction, eventually. — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
We're handing them [young people & future generations] a climate system which is potentially out of their control. We're in an emergency:… — James Hansen Copy Share Image
This is the whole point of technology. It creates an appetite for immortality on the one hand. It threatens universal extinction on… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
False rhetoric and false boastfulness spell moral ruin and lead unfailingly to political extinction. — Vladimir Lenin Copy Share Image
Although humankind inherently "desires to know", if open access to, and unlimited development of, knowledge henceforth puts us all in clear danger… — Bill Joy 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
Reason's biological function is to preserve and promote life and to postpone its extinction as long as possible. Thinking and acting are… — Ludwig von Mises Copy Share Image
The public image of dinosaurs is tainted by extinction. It's hard to accept dinosaurs as a success when they are all dead.… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
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