"In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is……" — Elizabeth Kolbert
"In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches."
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Elizabeth Kolbert
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12 Quotes by Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert has 12 quotes on this site.
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People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most…
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It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that…
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It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and…
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Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so,…
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Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make…
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Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s…
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What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing…
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In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.
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Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and…
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Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.
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It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.
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O man you are busy working for the world, and the world is busy trying to turn you out.
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The age we live in is a busy age; in which knowledge is rapidly advancing towards perfection.
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Americans are far more remarkable than we give ourselves credit for. We've been so busy damning ourselves for years. We've…
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I'm always busy, but I'm lazy as well.
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