Climate-crisis Quote by Lester R. Brown

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

— Bobby Adair

“It is a cosmic joke. Preoccupation with survival has set the stage for extinction.”

— John Steinbeck

“Meanwhile, let us abolish the ticking of time’s clock with one blow. Come closer.”

— Virginia Woolf

“no extinctions from this point onward are inevitable (this has always been true, however) 19,340”

— Kim Stanley Robinson

“To return to nature is to embrace extinction.”

— Mark X

“let's take the time that has been given to us and find that clock.”

— Anonymous

“Until the time is right, disappear we will.”

— George Lucas

“Time keeps ticking away, unaware of the suffering each second generates. Time doesn’t care, because if it did, it would’ve reversed.”

— Laura Kreitzer

“The disappearing time is the race of life”

— Sunday Adelaja

“Let us crush these so-called biological clocks that give us nothing but fear, and encourage us to make stupid decisions. Let us crush these…

— Osayi Osar-Emokpae

“Perhaps the past doesn't always preserve the beautiful order that clocks give to the present, and perhaps the future is rushing up in disorder,…

— Raymond Quaneau

“Ah, how quickly the hands on the clock circle toward the future we thought was far away! And how soon we become our mothers.”

— Peggy Toney Horton