The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. — Susan Sontag Copy Share Image
The fate of the vast majority of species on this planet has been extinction, eventually. — Alice Roberts Copy Share Image
The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily. — Kenneth Lacovara Copy Share Image
Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years. — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction. — Lester B. Pearson Copy Share Image
I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops. — Dan Gable Copy Share Image
Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world. — Steve Irwin Copy Share Image
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of… — R. Buckminster Fuller 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
“Oh. Come on! I left my backpack on the bus.” According to Darwin, you’re a prime candidate for extinction. Too stupid to… — Mimi Jean Pamfiloff Copy Share Image
The future of humanity is going to bifurcate in two directions: Either it's going to become multiplanetary, or it's going to remain… — Elon Musk Copy Share Image
To follow art for the sake of being a great man, and therefore to cast about continually for some means of achieving… — John Ruskin Copy Share Image
Since the Earth is finite, and we will have to stop expanding sometime, should we do it before or after nature's diversity… — Donella Meadows Copy Share Image
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there… — Arnold J. Toynbee Copy Share Image
The struggle to save every possible species and ecosystem from the current wave of destruction is worthwhile. One day, perhaps within our… — George Monbiot Copy Share Image
The passenger pigeon, the golden toad, the Caspian tiger: they are all gone, and other species hang by a thread. Our actions… — Owen Jones Copy Share Image
I was reading about how countless species are being pushed toward extinction by man's destruction of forests. . . . Sometimes I… — Bill Watterson Copy Share Image
The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of… — David Suzuki Copy Share Image
The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Plague has hung over human history. The biggest human extinction was after 1492 in North and South America when the mortality rate… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
If you're a conservation biologist in many fields, you're seeing your study subject disappear. People are in the position where they're chronicling… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on… — Lewis Thomas Copy Share Image
“In more recent years, I've increasingly reported on specific cases where the interests of individual animals seem to conflict with the goal… — Emma Marris Copy Share Image
The characteristic human trait is not awareness but conformity, and the characteristic result is religious warfare. Other animals fight for territory or… — Michael Crichton Copy Share Image
“There are species that retain their characteristics even in conditions that are relatively different from their natural ones; other species in similar… — Julius Evola Copy Share Image
A large animal needs a large area. If you protect that area, you're also protecting thousands of other plants and animals. You're… — George Schaller Copy Share Image
“the former head of Yale’s School of Forestry writes in the introduction to his latest book, The Bridge at the Edge of… — Bill McKibben Copy Share Image
“We should always be clear that animal exploitation is wrong because it involves speciesism. And speciesism is wrong because, like racism, sexism,… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that… — Cormac McCarthy Copy Share Image
“Paleoecology teaches that refugia are not only physical places, but they also represent bottlenecks along a timeline. Large populations of trees, insects,… — Ryan Emanuel Copy Share Image
“I am opposed to animal welfare campaigns for two reasons. First, if animal use cannot be morally justified, then we ought to… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
Cultures have gone down and rebuilt again and I'm sure we're all facing the same level of extinction. — Justin Broadrick Copy Share Image
DEATH = D. Dreaded E. Extinction A. Accumulated T. Throughout H. Humanity — Stanley Victor Paskavich Copy Share Image
Humans regard animals as worthy of protection only when they are on the verge of extinction. — Paul Craig Roberts Copy Share Image
Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam. — Joel Garreau Copy Share Image
If anyone's going to bring about mass extinction, it'll be Donald Trump. — Nikki Glaser Copy Share Image
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it. — George C. Williams Copy Share Image
The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing. — Ian Tattersall Copy Share Image
