Billions Quote by Jeff McNeely

A billion homo sapiens are added every 11 years to the planet. The hypertrophy of a single species pushes other life-forms out of bed…

— Leonard Sweet

We are in grave danger of losing forever not just millions of years of evolution on earth, but the eons of change that have…

— Charles Lindbergh

It is astonishing to realise that the human species survived hundreds of thousands of years, more than 99 percent of its time on this…

— Leonard Hayflick

We didn't evolve through billions of years to remain animals.

— Zoltan Istvan

Although Nature needs thousands or millions of years to create a new species, man needs only a few dozen years to destroy one.

— Victor Blanchard Scheffer

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

— Dee Hock

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the…

— E. O. Wilson

We've got to somehow stabilize our connection to nature so that in 50 years from now, 500 years, 5,000 years from now there will…

— Sylvia Earle

Every creature alive on the earth today represents an unbroken line of life that stretches back to the first primitive organism to appear on…

— George Wald

“Nature is the birthright of everyone on Earth. The millions of species we have allowed to survive are our phylogenetic kin. Their long-term history…

— Edward O. Wilson

This is the rollcall of evolution happening in the space of a few generations, the greatest loss of living things that make up our…

— Peter Garrett

You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like…

— Jon Fishman