When the veil of fiction was rent, man shuddered before "Nature, red in tooth and claw." Nature had always been that and… — Revilo P. Oliver Copy Share Image
The fact that in Mohammedan law every woman must belong to some man as his absolute property - either as a child,… — Winston Churchill Copy Share Image
“... humans are simply zombie hosts obediently disseminating their seeds, tubers, sparks, and gasses around the globe. In the end, the geologic… — John Vaillant Copy Share Image
“Darwin’s familiarity with human-caused extinction is also clear from On the Origin of Species. In one of the many passages in which… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Biodiversity can't be maintained by protecting a few species in a zoo, or by preserving greenbelts or national parks. To function properly,… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
Wherever wolves run free, indigenous cultures have revered them as symbols of loyalty, free will, fearlessness and unity. But wolves haven't had… — Zoe Helene Copy Share Image
“Environmentalists like to say that defeats are permanent, victories temporary. Extinction, like death, is forever, but protection needs to be maintained. But… — Rebecca Solnit Copy Share Image
Nirvana is the utter extinction of all that is base in us, all that is vicious in us. Nirvana is not like… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
Humanity is creating an extinction event that will make every war ever fought a footnote to history. We belong to the only… — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
The whole earth, perpetually steeped in blood, is nothing but an immense altar on which every living thing must be sacrificed without… — Joseph de Maistre Copy Share Image
It can be fairly argued that the highest priority for mankind is to save itself from extinction. However, it can also be… — Selma Fraiberg Copy Share Image
“Perhaps our and Gaia’s greatest error was the conscious abuse of fire. Cooking meat over a wood fire may have been acceptable,… — James Lovelock Copy Share Image
The cold view to take of our future is that we are therefore headed for extinction in a universe of impersonal chemical,… — Barry Lopez 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 number of people displaced by dams is estimated at between 40 million and 80 million, most of them in China and… — Paul Brown 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
“The living world has become impoverished. Species are being lost every day. Energy and other resources are nearing exhaustion. The environment is… — Christian de Duve Copy Share Image
Global warming, along with the cutting and burning of forests and other critical habitats, is causing the loss of living species at… — Al Gore Copy Share Image
I've accepted the fact that there's a beginning and end to everything. All species are born, evolve, and then die off. We're… — Yvon Chouinard Copy Share Image
One of the many things I do not understand about Americans is this: what is it like to be a citizen of… — Martin Amis Copy Share Image
Our biggest challenges for the ocean and for the planet are problems of perception. People need to understand that species extinctions, habitat… — Edith Widder Copy Share Image
Eventually, the Sun will swell to occupy the entire sky as its expansion subsumes the orbit of earth. Earth's surface temperature will… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the… — April Gornik Copy Share Image
The church must acclimate to a changing world, or she will destine herself to irrelevance or even extinction. ...One of those dramatic… — Erwin McManus Copy Share Image
If we somehow put a value on species extinction and factor that into our costs that bottom line would look very different.… — Ray Anderson Copy Share Image
“Now, I pray you, cast yourself into a different world, a different trail of thought; step into a place where dragons live… — Alexis Steinhauer Copy Share Image
One of the most jolting days of adulthood comes the first time you run out of toilet paper. Toilet paper, up until… — Kelly Williams Brown Copy Share Image
Even very smart people can try to shoehorn new information that just doesn't fit into an existing paradigm.For a long time the… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Many of the earth's habitats, animals, plants, insects and even micro-organisms that we know to be rare may not be known at… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
We tell our children they're trapped like rats on a doomed, bankrupt, gangster-haunted planet with dwindling resources, with nothing to look forward… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
Climate change is not a major issue because it will cause sea level rises or temperature increases, since we know how to… — Shailesh Rao Copy Share Image
“Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be… — John Gray 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
But to carve the Grand Canyon, Earth required millions of years. To excavate Meteor Crater, the universe, using a sixty-thousand-ton asteroid traveling… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the… — Philip Wollen Copy Share Image
The film is therefore a form of science fiction, in which humans, beasts and machines are on the verge of extinction -… — Leos Carax Copy Share Image
In the way our Fathers originally left the slavery question, the institution was in the course of ultimate extinction, and the public… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity,… — June Jordan Copy Share Image
It's a fair guess that at the rate we're destroying habitat, especially but not exclusively in the tropics, we're pushing to extinction… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
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