Accomplished Quote by Charles Galton Darwin

But without humans, the wild would take over. It would only take a hundred years or so for nature to win again.

— Lucy Christopher

We didn't evolve through billions of years to remain animals.

— Zoltan Istvan

Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.

— Victor Blanchard Scheffer

There are no wild animals until man makes them so.

— Mark Twain

Yet the experience of four thousand years should enlarge our hopes, and diminish our apprehensions: we cannot determine to what height the human species…

— Edward Gibbon

The human race may well become extinct before the end of the century.

— Bertrand Russell

“Homo erectus, ‘Upright Man’, who survived there for close to 2 million years, making it the most durable human species ever. This record is…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The last 10,000 to 20,000 years have witnessed a period of dramatic growth in human civilization. Indeed, our growth during this time is unique…

— Heidi Cullen

“Recent studies suggest we are already in a period of extreme disequilibrium. Over the past 10,000 years human evolution has occurred 10-100x faster than…

— Juan Enriquez

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

— Dee Hock

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

“Nature is the birthright of everyone on Earth. The millions of species we have allowed to survive are our phylogenetic kin. Their long-term history…

— Edward O. Wilson