Living things Quote by Bill Nye

The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough…

— Bill Mollison

“Another expert, David Jablonski, characterizes mass extinctions as “substantial biodiversity losses” that occur rapidly and are “global in extent.”

— Elizabeth Kolbert

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

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki

“the center of the American Museum of Natural History’s Hall of Biodiversity, there’s an exhibit embedded in the floor. The exhibit is arranged around…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“background extinction.” In ordinary times—times here understood to mean whole geologic epochs—extinction takes place only very rarely, more rarely even than speciation, and it…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small,…

— Asa Gray

There is good reason to believe that we have already entered the Sixth Extinction, a period of destruction of species on a massive scale,…

— Noam Chomsky

Extinction has only separated groups: it has by no means made them; for if every form which has ever lived on this earth were…

— Charles Darwin

The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are…

— David M. Raup

For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century… We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals…

— Douglas Adams

“In ordinary times—times here understood to mean whole geologic epochs—extinction takes place only very rarely, more rarely even than speciation, and it occurs at…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

A billion homo sapiens are added every 11 years to the planet. The hypertrophy of a single species pushes other life-forms out of bed…

— Leonard Sweet