“Alroy has described the megafauna extinction as a "geologically instantaneous ecological catastrophe too gradual to be perceived by the people who unleashed… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
There's a fundamental difference, if you look into the future, between a humanity that is a space-faring civilisation, that's out there exploring… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
No one can say how long the process of human extinction might take, but as it proceeds, the same global order will… — Joel Sternfeld Copy Share Image
We're not just being dramatic talking about a human extinction - that's the pathway we're on. We have to look at the… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
“Don’t believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
After all, if you have the majority of customers, then what you do becomes the standard. Your competitors have little choice but… — Douglas Gwyn Copy Share Image
Sometimes in the ignorance I feel the meaning Invincible invisible wisdom, And I commune with intuitive instinct With the force that made… — Sun Ra Copy Share Image
If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite… — Eliezer Yudkowsky Copy Share Image
“Wildlife conservation is always a race against time. As zoologists and botanists explore new areas, scrabbling to record the mere existence of… — Mark Carwardine Copy Share Image
The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and… — David M. Raup Copy Share Image
“True. And there are an infinite number of universes, of course, in which we don't exist at all - that is, no… — Fredric Brown Copy Share Image
“Of course, if diprotodons had been the only large animal to disappear at this time, it might have been just a fluke.… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
Something will have gone out of us as a people if we ever let the remaining wilderness be destroyed; if we permit… — Wallace Stegner Copy Share Image
'Revelation assures us that 'righteousness exalteth a nation.' Communities are dealt with in this world by the wise and just Ruler of… — Samuel Adams Copy Share Image
We are clearcutting virgin forests around the world, and 95 percent of species in the clearcut zone have never been studied. So… — Horst Rechelbacher Copy Share Image
One thing you cannot know: The sudden extinction of every alternative, The unexpected crash of the iron cataract. You do not know… — T. S. Eliot Copy Share Image
7 plus Billion Human Beings…The Era of Ultimate Connection, yet no real connections at all…The True Trilogy of Terror has begun…Fear, Sloth,… — Eric Nickel Copy Share Image
“freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. we did'nt pass it to our children in the bloodstream. it must… — Ronald Reagan Copy Share Image
Studying elephants is like going back into prehistoric times. In size, elephants are the closest thigns we have to dinosaurs. There are… — Roland Smith Copy Share Image
Re. the Caribbean Conservation Corporation Everybody in the organization has subscribed to the original concept that its most important attributes are a… — Archie Carr Copy Share Image
The number of people in the world engaged in this search for catastrophic impactors totals one or two dozen. How long into… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
“Our march toward self-annihilation has already obliterated ninety percent of the large fish in the oceans and wiped out half of the… — Chris Hedges Copy Share Image
“Homo rapiens is only one of very many species, and not obviously worth preserving. Later or sooner, it will become extinct. When… — John N. Gray Copy Share Image
Climate has always changed. It always has and always will. Sea level has always changed. Ice sheets come and go. Life always… — Ian Plimer Copy Share Image
We're [humans] running great risks of doing things that will not be good for us. The cost can be very high indeed… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note… — Rae Armantrout Copy Share Image
Any loss of identity prompts people to seek reassurance and rediscovery of themselves by testing, and even by violence. Today, the electric… — Marshall McLuhan Copy Share Image
I just wonder what it would be like to be reincarnated in an animal whose species had been so reduced in numbers… — Prince Philip Copy Share Image
I want upon death to be buried, just like in the old days, where I decompose by the action of microorganisms, and… — Neil deGrasse Tyson 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
“They may not become extinct immediately, but being pushed out of decaying or destroyed habitats eventually takes its toll. The concept is… — Craig Childs Copy Share Image
We human beings are not only the beneficiaries but also the stewards of other creatures. Thanks to our bodies, God has joined… — Pope Francis Copy Share Image
The chunks of comet Shoemaker-Levy 9 were so large, and were moving so fast, that each hit Jupiter with at least the… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
People, fearing their own extinction, are willing to accept and perpetuate hand-me-down answers to the meaning of life and death; and, fearing… — Robert Coover Copy Share Image
Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction… — John Zerzan Copy Share Image
Along with the possibility of extinction of mankind by nuclear war, the central problem of our age has therefore become the contamination… — Rachel Carson Copy Share Image
“You know how the dinosaurs went extinct - they committed suicide when they saw the white man coming. They said to themselves,… — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new… — Lynn Margulis Copy Share Image
Even if we act immediately, the world is doomed to lose many of its animal and plant species and this inturn will… — Achim Steiner Copy Share Image
“If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
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