Becoming Quote by Anne Sexton

Every species we cause to become extinct we come closer to our own extinction

— Unkown

What once sprung from the earth sinks back into the earth.

— Lucretius

The act of putting into your mouth what the earth has grown is perhaps your most direct interaction with the earth.

— Frances Moore Lappé

We will all, someday, experience death, and become obsolete as a dead leaf falling from a tree, crushed by passersby to ashes underlying the…

— Anonymous

Nature, left to itself, defeats nature.

— Georgia Harkness

We plant our roots in trembling earth, we live where mountains rose and fell and prehistoric seas burned away in mist. We and the…

— Robert R. McCammon

We find ourselves heading fully into an era of mass extinction.

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki

What was earth, we made into filth. We must at least be able to transform it back to earth.

— Jaggi Vasudev

The last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. [Lat., Supremus ille dies non nostri extinctionem sed commutationem affert loci.]

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

In one fell swoop, we have shrunken the earth.

— Juan Trippe

Planet Earth, creation, the world in which civilization developed, the world with climate patterns that we know and stable shorelines, is in imminent peril.

— James Hansen

We are living in the beginning of a mass extinction and our climate is breaking down.

— Greta Thunburg