Extinction Quotes

202 quotes by 176 authors

We got rich by violating one of the central tenets of economics: thou shall not sell off your capital and call it income. And yet… — Kalle Lasn
Common man has at long last got himself so far out of gear with nature and his environment that he is beginning to see the… — Philip Wylie
Extinction is the beginning of the path: it is traveling to God Most High. Guidance comes afterwards. What I mean by guidance is the guidance… — Ibn Ata Allah
During your lifetime, the people of our culture are going to figure out how to live sustainably on this planet--or they're not. Either way, it's… — Daniel Quinn
How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of… — Henry Van Dyke
If we don't watch out, the pleasure o be gained from the discriminating enjoyment of food will be lost. It may not be long before… — Benoite Groult
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches. — Elizabeth Kolbert
We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction. — Stephen Jay Gould
One animal or plant species may become extinct every hour. All species are doomed to extinction, but man through worldwide development/killing animals for food/profit/using toxic… — Erik P. Eckholm
By 2050, at bio-extinction's current rate, between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be too few in… — Stuart L. Pimm
America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching. — Nick Clooney
Record stores are the backbone of the recorded music culture. It's where we go to network, browse around, and find new songs to love. The… — Joan Jett
I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems - climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage - we surely do. [But] ultimately… — Peter Diamandis
Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species. — Bill Gaede
Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to imagine.… — Cary Fowler
As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist… — Murray Bookchin
We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of one,… — Philip Wollen
My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable… — Fernando Pessoa
The old ways are dead. And you need people around you who concur. That means hanging out more with the creative people, the freaks, the… — Hugh Jackman
Like most of my poems, 'Lie' has several sources: I read a very troubling book called The Sixth Extinction. I took note of the way… — Rae Armantrout

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