Apocalyptic Quote by Neil deGrasse Tyson

We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous…

— Stephen Jay Gould

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 find ourselves heading fully into an era of mass extinction.

— Severn Cullis-Suzuki

“The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway.”

— Steven Magee

“Homo rapiens is only one of very many species, and not obviously worth preserving. Later or sooner, it will become extinct. When it is…

— John N. Gray

We live in a time where we have more extinction happening on our planet than since the dinosaurs were wiped out 50 million years ago.

— Jeff Corwin

Humans will eventually become extinct. People treat that as a radical thing to say. But the fossil record shows us that everything eventually becomes…

— Elizabeth Kolbert

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

This last chapter .. may have given the impression that somehow man is the ultimate triumph of evolution, that all these millions of years…

— David Attenborough

“Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be around, along…

— John Gray

Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.

— Bill Gaede

I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for…

— Kurt Vonnegut