Developing Quote by Jon Fishman

The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.

— Frederick Lenz

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

For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century… We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals…

— Douglas Adams

We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens,…

— Michael Smith

Biological evolution is too slow for the human species. Over the next few decades, it's going to be left in the dust.

— Ray Kurzweil

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

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

The struggle to save every possible species and ecosystem from the current wave of destruction is worthwhile. One day, perhaps within our lifetimes, they…

— George Monbiot

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

I'm very concerned for the future of the earth and its amazing creatures. We've got to be careful and make sure we don't foul…

— John Lithgow

Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral…

— Anonymous

We're not going to protect the Earth the way we need to protect it if we don't stop making so many babies.

— Evangeline Lilly