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“Life is a hideous thing, and from the background behind what we know of it peer daemoniacal hints of truth which make it sometimes…

— H.P. Lovecraft

We've been tinkering with nature for tens of thousands of years - look at a poodle! So we've created all sorts of organisms and…

— Frances Arnold

“The romantic contrast between modern industry that “destroys nature” and our ancestors who “lived in harmony with nature” is groundless. Long before the Industrial…

— Yuval Noah Harari

We are the most dangerous species of life on the planet, and every other species, even the earth itself, has cause to fear our…

— Wallace Stegner

We are into the opening stages of a human-caused biotic holocaust-a wholesale elimination of species-that could leave the planet impoverished for at least five…

— Norman Myers

Most people have forgotten how to live with living creatures, with living systems and that, in turn, is the reason why man, whenever he…

— Konrad Lorenz

We torture and kill two billion sentient living beings every week. 10,000 entire species are wiped out every year because of the actions of…

— Philip Wollen

Humans are remarkable: the first species in almost four billion years of life on earth that dominates the biosphere. This gives us the power,…

— David Christian

Science, already oppressive with its shocking revelations, will perhaps be the ultimate exterminator of our human species - if separate species we be -…

— H. P. Lovecraft

We are the only species which, when it chooses to do so, will go to great effort to save what it might destroy.

— Wallace Stegner

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

— Peter Brannen

Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around the planet…

— Elizabeth Kolbert