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
The density of human population combined with the development of powerful and largely unconstrained technology has given us the problems of the… — Dale Jamieson 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
How could being the entire cosmos and all of its wonder and all of its stages and cycles, and yet being that… — Frederick Lenz Copy Share Image
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 Copy Share Image
The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the… — Rupert Sheldrake 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
“By the time Lyall set foot on the shores of Stephens Island, almost a third of New Zealand’s unique species were already… — Peter P. Marra Copy Share Image
Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction. It is not ours by inheritance; it… — Ronald Reagan 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
“The bottom line answer to the question about why biodiversity matters is fairly simple: The rest of the living world can get… — Sylvia A. Earle Copy Share Image
This is not a matter of weapons. We are hopeful for God's help. The real matter is the extinction of America. And,… — Mohammed Omar 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 faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one… — Nancy Pearcey Copy Share Image
Nothing is more important than saving ... the Lions, Tigers, Giraffes, Elephants, Froggies, Turtles, Apes, Raccoons, Beetles, Ants, Sharks, Bears, and, of… — James Lee Copy Share Image
Yet it is necessary to hope, though hope should always be deluded, for hope itself is happiness, and its frustrations, however frequent,… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share Image
“Although justifications for wild meat harvest in terms of food for impoverished communities must be weighed seriously, it is critical to acknowledge… — William J. Ripple Copy Share Image
As long as the Republican party exists in its present form, our nation cannot endure as a free society. Still worse, under… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around… — 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
As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will… — Murray Bookchin Copy Share Image
As long as a branch of science offers an abundance of problems, so long it is alive; a lack of problems foreshadows… — David Hilbert Copy Share Image
“Humanity is the only species that actively debates whether or not it should maintain the environmental conditions necessary for its own continued… — Natalie Kyriacou Copy Share Image
All the labor of all the ages, all the devotion, all the inspiration, all the noonday brightness of human genius are destined… — Bertrand Russell 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
I did say, at Chicago, in my speech there, that I do wish to see the spread of slavery arrested and to… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
“Soon after man shows up in new lands, the big game starts to go missing. […] A bad smell of extinction follows… — Ronald Wright Copy Share Image
“Politicians are in the process of committing species extinction in honor of their corporate sponsors and the general public are along for… — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many… — Robert T. Bakker Copy Share Image
If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at… — Mark Lynas Copy Share Image