Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are… — E. O. Wilson Copy Share Image
“The Extinction of the Human Race now underway. Watch it live as it happens - Is it too late to stop it?… — Michael Mathiesen Copy Share Image
Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power. — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image
Looking at everything, I started to feel nauseous, as if the seventies had taken refuge here against extinction and were preparing to… — Kim Harrison Copy Share Image
“Within a few thousand years, virtually all of these giants vanished. Of the twenty-four Australian animal species weighing fifty kilograms or more,… — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my… — Allen Ginsberg Copy Share Image
China cares about its reputation and doesn't want to be known as the nation whose preferences drove the extinction of elephants. — Wayne Pacelle Copy Share Image
“Extinction, the irrevocable loss of a species, causes pain that can never find relief. It is an ache that will pass from… — Callum Roberts Copy Share Image
One animal or plant species may become extinct every hour. All species are doomed to extinction, but man through worldwide development/killing animals… — Erik P. Eckholm Copy Share Image
Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn't we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our… — Bill Joy Copy Share Image
In this twenty-first century, there's no one like Sharona Muir who can write, in bright accurate language, animals real or imaginary in… — John Felstiner Copy Share Image
If we don't watch out, the pleasure o be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not… — Benoite Groult Copy Share Image
Nature does not know extinction; all it knows is transformation. ... Everything science has taught me-and continues to teach me-strengthens my belief… — Wernher von Braun Copy Share Image
There is a one-in-300 chance that Earth will be struck on March 16, 2880, by an asteroid large enough to destroy civilization… — Nathan Myhrvold Copy Share Image
In view of the fading animals the proliferation of sewers and fears the sea clogging, the air nearing extinction we should be… — Margaret Atwood Copy Share Image
We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We,… — Michael Smith Copy Share Image
“Naysayers at their polite best chided the rewilders for romanticizing the past; at their sniping worst, for tempting a 'Jurassic Park' disaster.… — William Stolzenburg Copy Share Image
“Imagine a single survivor, a lonely fugitive at large on mainland Mauritius at the end of the seventeenth century. Imagine this fugitive… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“There was a time in the ancient world - a very long time - in which the central cultural problem must have… — Stephen Greenblatt Copy Share Image
Almost by definition, secularism cannot be a future: it's a present-tense culture that over time disconnects a society from cross-generational purpose. Which… — Mark Steyn Copy Share Image
“try reading out loud the list of animals that have already gone extinct in recent years. Read it slowly, as the solemn… — Karen Hering Copy Share Image
“For a Coming Extinction Gray whale Now that we are sending you to The End That great god Tell him That we… — W.S. Merwin Copy Share Image
“The most effective alternative process [to punishment] is probably extinction. This takes time but is much more rapid than allowing the response… — B.F. Skinner Copy Share Image
“We killed them all when we came here. The people came and burned their land The forests where they used to feed… — Neil Gaiman Copy Share Image
“The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway.” — Steven Magee Copy Share Image
The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the… — Li Bingbing Copy Share Image
Seventy percent of Earth's surface is water and over 99 percent is uninhabited, so you would expect nearly all impactors to hit… — Neil deGrasse Tyson Copy Share Image
Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no… — Paul Hawken Copy Share Image
Human extinction in our children's lifetime, it should be your top news item every single day, what's happening, you should be holding… — Gail Bradbrook Copy Share Image
... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of… — Brian D. McLaren Copy Share Image
We need to act now. Otherwise the biodiversity that makes Australia so wonderfully unique is going to be lost to us forever. — Kristy Hinze Copy Share Image
I would want us to start our quest to survive mass extinction by rethinking how we build cities. Cities should be commonplaces… — Annalee Newitz Copy Share Image
The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock… — Katherine Anne Porter Copy Share Image
Today, due to the massive Chinese population transfer, the nation of Tibet truly faces the threat of extinction, along with its unique… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
“A sign in the Hall of Biodiversity offers a quote from the Stanford ecologist Paul Ehrlich: IN PUSHING OTHER SPECIES TO EXTINCTION,… — Elizabeth Kolbert Copy Share Image
Protecting biodiversity is just as important and critical to the survival of mankind as stabilizing the climate. Species protection and climate are… — Klaus Topfer Copy Share Image
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to… — R. Buckminster Fuller Copy Share Image
Precise adaptation, with each part finely honed to perform a definite function in an optimal way, can only lead to blind alleys,… — Stephen Jay Gould Copy Share Image