21st century Quote by Gisele Bundchen

For thousands of years it has been understood that, just as civilizations have to come to an end, there can even be times of…

— Peter Kingsley

Often extinctions in the ocean occur at the same time as those on land. Then again, the ice age extinctions lost many big animals,…

— Robert T. Bakker

The money to be made is clearly more important than the extinctions we cause, including our own.

— Guy R. McPherson

“There’s a voice that says: "So what?" It’s not my voice, it’s probably not yours, but it makes itself heard in the arenas of…

— David Quammen

Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power.

— 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

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

It's hard not to be kind of pessimistic about human beings generally, because we do tend to mess things up. If you just look…

— Bill Bryson

“The First Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread of the foragers, was followed by the Second Wave Extinction, which accompanied the spread of the…

— Yuval Noah Harari

“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

“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 ordinary times—times here understood to mean whole geologic epochs—extinction takes place only very rarely, more rarely even than speciation, and it occurs at…

— Elizabeth Kolbert