Extinction Quotes

202 quotes by 176 authors

I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops. — Dan Gable
In America, the traditional routes to black identity have hardly been normal. Suicide (disappearance by imitation, or willed extinction), violence (hysterical religiosity, crime, armed revolt),… — June Jordan
One in eight plant species face extinction. — David Attenborough
A species may eat a particular bacterium, phytoplankton, smaller fish, or plant in an area. Lacking a predator, these species/populations will overgrow and alter the… — Thom Hartmann
Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years. — David Suzuki
Looking around the world at these wildlife, it's abundantly clear that humans have benefited from nature in so many ways but have also brought many… — Ian Somerhalder
Given the incredible power of these new technologies, shouldn't we be asking how we can best coexist with them? And if our own extinction is… — Bill Joy
No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in… — Derrick Jensen
What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance. — Ernest Becker
Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals, but… — Robert T. Bakker
Education without execution is extinction — Bo Sanchez
Freedom is always just one generation away from extinction. We don't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. We have to fight for it… — Ronald Reagan
If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answer anyone can… — E. O. Wilson
Studying elephants is like going back into prehistoric times. In size, elephants are the closest thigns we have to dinosaurs. There are days when I… — Roland Smith
We have no problem with the extinction of domestic animals. — Wayne Pacelle
The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of dinosaurs. — E. O. Wilson
Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future is… — Robert Kiyosaki
Never before have people been so infantalized, made so dependant on the machine for everything; as the earth rapidly approaches its extinction due to technology,… — John Zerzan
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it. — George C. Williams
Quite clearly, our task is predominantly metaphysical, for it is how to get all of humanity to educate itself swiftly enough to generate spontaneous social… — R. Buckminster Fuller

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