Country Quote by Georges Cuvier

Because of fear, they made shelter and found food and grew things. For the same reason, weapons were stored, waiting.

— Lois Lowry

Several times in Earth's history, rapid global warming occurred, apparently spurred by amplifying feedbacks. In each case, more than half of plant and animal…

— James Hansen

Human and natural disasters just before the animal was a threat to humanity today are at risk from human

— Mak_786

“Later, I would come to think of those first days as the time when we learned as a species that we had worried over…

— Karen Thompson Walker

And I was yet aware that this was only a moment, that the world waited outside, as hungry as a tiger, and that trouble…

— Anonymous

“Killing was a relatively simple matter--a blow to the head, a knife to the throat--complicated only by how much one cared about the pain…

— William Cronon

“The cause of these great extinctions, the most extensive in the seventy-million-year record for mammals, is a mystery. The two prevailing guesses, climatic environmental…

— Stephen J. O'Brien

Why did human development proceed at such different rates on different continents for the last 13,000 years?

— Jared Diamond

It happened fast. Thirty-two minutes for one world to die, another to be born.

— Justin Cronin

“Animal life has been all but destroyed in sudden, planetwide exterminations five times in Earth's history.”

— Peter Brannen

From my personal point of view, the Animals are dead. They killed themselves.

— Eric Burdon

The day may come when the rest of the animal creation may acquire those rights which never could have been withholden from them but…

— Jeremy Bentham