Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man. — Louie Psihoyos Copy Share Image
We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction. — Rob Nixon Copy Share Image
You know, of course, that the Tasmanians, who never committed adultery, are now extinct. — Anonymous Copy Share Image
The money to be made is clearly more important than the extinctions we cause, including our own. — Guy R. McPherson Copy Share Image
“You live with the threat of my extinction. I live with it too.” — Michael Cunningham Copy Share Image
“Birds were also hard-hit; perhaps three-quarters of all bird families, perhaps more, went extinct.” — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
“It is a cosmic joke. Preoccupation with survival has set the stage for extinction.” — John Steinbeck Copy Share Image
“How will humanity react when it realizes that it has survived an extinction event?” — Bobby Adair Copy Share Image
Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder… — Arthur Levitt Copy Share Image
For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of… — Mahatma Gandhi Copy Share Image
“In the twenty-first century, those who ride the train of progress will acquire divine abilities of creation and destruction, while those left… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
“Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of… — Charles Darwin Copy Share Image
Government, like any other organism, refuses to acquiesce in its own extinction. This refusal, of course, involves the resistance to any effort… — H. L. Mencken Copy Share Image
This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make… — Peter Garrett Copy Share Image
“As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the… — Walter Benjamin Copy Share Image
Egypt is home to the largest Christian population in the Middle East, largely because they've been persecuted to brink of extinction everywhere… — Katie Pavlich Copy Share Image
If Earth ever suffers a runaway greenhouse effect (like what has happened on Venus), then our atmosphere would trap excess amounts of… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
To be fair, if we are having a mass extinction, we're in the early stages of it. I think it's knowing facts… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be… — Louise Leakey Copy Share Image
There is no sense in meddling with the extinction of polar bears, not when so many more pressing human problems await. Until… — S.E. Cupp Copy Share Image
“He explained the dynamic that leads an uprooted tribe to extinction: “The women stop having children. Under these conditions, why have children?… — Scott Wallace Copy Share Image
As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we… — David Grinspoon Copy Share Image
Many of us, utterly overcome by Tamas, the dark and heavy demon of inertia, are saying nowadays that it is impossible, that… — Sri Aurobindo Copy Share Image
The question now at issue, whether the living species are connected with the extinct by a common bond of descent, will best… — Charles Lyell Copy Share Image
an Autobiography is the truest of all books; for while it inevitably consists mainly of extinctions of the truth, shirkings of the… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“We are the hands and eyes and ears, the sensitive probing feelers through which the emergent, intelligent universe comes to know its… — Grant Morrison Copy Share Image
If I had my life to live over again I would not devote it to develop new industrial processes: I would try… — Leo Baekeland Copy Share Image
“If we are ever going to see a paradigm shift, we have to be clear about how we want the present paradigm… — GaryLFrancione Copy Share Image
A billion homo sapiens are added every 11 years to the planet. The hypertrophy of a single species pushes other life-forms out… — Leonard Sweet Copy Share Image
Of the four billion life forms which have existed on this planet, three billion, nine hundred and sixty million are now extinct.… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I am thinking of one woman and the rest is blotto. I say I am thinking of her, but the truth is… — Henry Miller Copy Share Image
“the center of the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Biodiversity, there’s an exhibit embedded in the floor. The exhibit is… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Each time one of the medicine men dies, it's as if a library has burned down. — Mark Plotkin Copy Share Image
The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter. — Eric Hoffer Copy Share Image
“The greatest tragedy is not that Papuans disappear. It is that Papua disappears while Papuans remain.” — Yamin Kogoya Copy Share Image
“Peace is the ultimate weapon of mankind to save the future generations from extinction!” — Avijeet Das Copy Share Image
We had a 25-step process coming up with the name Extinction Rebellion. — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
“No matter the karats on a person's body, without kindness all karats cause extinction.” — Abhijit Naskar Copy Share Image
Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh. — Barbara Block Copy Share Image
