Nature of man Quote by Elizabeth Kolbert

“A sign in the Hall of Biodiversity offers a quote from the Stanford ecologist Paul Ehrlich: IN PUSHING OTHER SPECIES TO EXTINCTION, HUMANITY IS…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“Homo rapiens is only one of very many species, and not obviously worth preserving. Later or sooner, it will become extinct. When it is…

— John N. 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

“Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the record among all organisms for driving the most plant and animal species to their extinctions.…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“The epitaph for humanity does not yet have to include the tragic indictment of having engineered the sixth major mass extinction in earth history.…

— Peter Brannen

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…

— Stephen Jay Gould

“Don’t believe tree-huggers who claim that our ancestors lived in harmony with nature. Long before the Industrial Revolution, Homo sapiens held the record among…

— Yuval Noah Harari

There is a beginning and end to all life - and to all human endeavors. Species evolve and die off. Empires rise, then break…

— Yvon Chouinard

“Recent studies funded by Britain’s Natural Environment Research Council provide support for those concerns. (Thomas, et al, 2004; Stevens, et al, 2004) While there…

— Bruce H. Lipton

In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious…

— Cameron Russell

“Few problems are less recognized, but more important than, the accelerating disappearance of the earth’s biological resources. In pushing other species to extinction, humanity…

— Peter P. Marra

In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.

— Anonymous