Edges Quote by Eric Hoffer

Extinction isn't pretty, especially when you know it's coming and do nothing about it.

— Rick Wilson

“The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway.”

— Steven Magee

Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.

— Ezra Pound

The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.

— Vernor Vinge

“Self-preservation is a biological imperative even in the lowest of life forms, but annoyance is a trait exclusive to the most deviant.”

— Whiskey Britches

“The ability for anyone in our generation to self-amuse has sadly been bred out of our species.”

— Kim Askew

When faced with a radical crisis, when the old way of being in the world, of interacting with each other and with the realm…

— Eckhart Tolle

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

— Ernest Becker

The form most contradictory to human life that can appear among the human species is the "self-satisfied man."

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

To the Maker the archetype, the self-sustainer, human interaction is usually a waste of the most precious thing in his vital existance: time.

— Anonymous

The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing.

— Ian Tattersall

“Nature does not know extinction, only transformation”

— Werner Von Braun