Kiwi Quote by Peter P. Marra

“By the time Lyall set foot on the shores of Stephens Island, almost a third of New Zealand’s unique species were already extinct due…

— Peter P. Marra

Kiwis must not fall behind the standards of other countries. We pride ourselves on our quality of life. Thus we must pave the road…

— Kylie Bax

I still present myself as a New Zealander, answering people's questions about New Zealand and contributing in my own unlikely way to the global…

— Anthony McCarten

“Another expert, David Jablonski, characterizes mass extinctions as “substantial biodiversity losses” that occur rapidly and are “global in extent.”

— Elizabeth Kolbert

“Within a few thousand years, virtually all of these giants vanished. Of the twenty-four Australian animal species weighing fifty kilograms or more, twenty-three became…

— Yuval Noah Harari

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

The fate of the vast majority of species on this planet has been extinction, eventually.

— Alice Roberts

We live at the edge of the world, so we live on the edge. Kiwis will always sacrifice money and security for adventure and…

— Lucy Lawless

We are being colonised without New Zealanders having some say in the numbers of people coming in and where they are coming from. This…

— Winston Peters

“Over 99 percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.”

— Neil Shubin

“Species that struggle to adapt to survive will become extinct”

— Charles Darwin

Islands are where species go to die.

— David Quammen