Bounds Quote by Jared Diamond

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

— Rick Wilson

To be fair, if we are having a mass extinction, we're in the early stages of it. I think it's knowing facts like that…

— Annalee Newitz

We find ourselves heading fully into an era of mass extinction.

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki

“How will humanity react when it realizes that it has survived an extinction event?”

— Bobby Adair

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

If our extinction proceeds slowly enough to allow a moment of horrified realization, the doers of the deed will likely be quite taken aback…

— Eliezer Yudkowsky

With respect to phenomena like mass extinction, somebody might say why worry about it because in a geological perspective mass extinctions aren't so bad,…

— Richard Lewontin

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

— Ian Tattersall

DEATH = D. Dreaded E. Extinction A. Accumulated T. Throughout H. Humanity

— Stanley Victor Paskavich

“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

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

— Elizabeth Kolbert

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

— George C. Williams