The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity… — E. O. Wilson 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
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
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
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
“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
If mankind is to escape its programmed self-extinction the God who saves us will not descend from the machine: he will rise… — Lewis Mumford Copy Share Image
We have no ethical obligation to preserve the different breeds of livestock produced through selective breeding One generation and out. We have… — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
Education is character development, harmonious completion of human personality. But what the state accomplishes in this field is dull drill, extinction of… — Rudolf Rocker Copy Share Image
For all the sublimity of art, physics, music, mathematics, and other manifestations of human genius, everything depends on the mundane, frustrating, often… — Charles Krauthammer Copy Share Image
If America wishes to preserve her native birds, we must help supply what civilization has taken from them. The building of cities… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
Who in the world has not yearned for a loved one, has never said, If only he or she could come back… — Ismail Kadaré Copy Share Image
We should not knowingly allow any species or race to go extinct. And let us go beyond mere salvage to begin the… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a… — Noam Chomsky Copy Share Image
When you're a hammer (as the saying goes), all your problems look like nails. If you're a meteorite expert pondering the sudden… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
So why don't we make ourselves the last generation on earth? If we would all agree to have ourselves sterilized then no… — Peter Singer 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
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
It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal… — Brian Perkins 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
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
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
“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
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
An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I… — Rusty Schweickart 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
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
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
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
I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range… — Asa Gray 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
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
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
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
“I will murder you by the billions to give you immortality. I will set fire to your civilization to light your way… — Daniel H. Wilson Copy Share Image
No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should… — Henry 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
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