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
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
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
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
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
“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
“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
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 even harder to realize that this present universe has evolved from an unspeakably unfamiliar early condition, and faces a future… — Steven Weinberg Copy Share Image
“background extinction.” In ordinary times—times here understood to mean whole geologic epochs—extinction takes place only very rarely, more rarely even than speciation,… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Each being in the universe yearns for the free energy necessary for survival and development. Each existence resists extinction. The consequent history… — Brian Swimme Copy Share Image
“The anthropologist Richard Leakey has warned that “Homo sapiens might not only be the agent of the sixth extinction, but also risks… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
No magic bullet, not even the Internet, can save us from population explosion, deforestation, climate disruption, poison by pollution, and wholesale extinction… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
Record stores are the backbone of the recorded music culture. It's where we go to network, browse around, and find new songs… — Joan Jett Copy Share Image
For thousands of years it has been understood that, just as civilizations have to come to an end, there can even be… — Peter Kingsley Copy Share Image
The preservation of biodiversity is not just a job for governments. International and non-governmental organisations, the private sector and each and every… — Kofi Annan 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
Your mind is software. Program it. Your body is a shell. Change it. Death is a disease. Cure it. Extinction is approaching.… — Peter Thiel 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
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
At issue was the question whether this man's faith could prevail against a man whose equal faith it was that this society… — Whittaker Chambers 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
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
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
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
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
...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
“What happened to you was done out of a fear of extinction, and while that doesn't make it excusable, it at least… — Dan Wells 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
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 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
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
