Catastrophe Quote by Pierre Teilhard de Chardin

Death is only a launching into the region of the strange Untried; it is but the first salutation to the possibilities of the immense…

— Herman Melville

Dead archaeology is the driest dust that blows.

— Mortimer Wheeler

There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation.

— Homer Hulbert

Death is not rare, alas! nor burials few, And soon the grassy coverlet of God Spreads equal green above their ashes pale.

— Bayard Taylor

Technique has taken over the whole of civilization. Death, procreation, birth all submit to technical efficiency and systemization.

— Jacques Ellul

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

— George C. Williams

Things that dont change go extinct

— Code Geass

Nothing is more detestable to the physical anthropologist than... the wretched habit of cremating the dead. It involves not only a prodigal waste of…

— Earnest Hooton

The once rather old-fashioned science of paleontology finds itself in a maelstrom of excitement and controversy. Astrophysicists, atmospheric scientists, geochemists, geophysicists, and statisticians are…

— David M. Raup

“There is a king of natural selection that takes place among myths. Those that capture something essential to the human condition can be preserved…

— Philip Freeman

Nearly all great civilizations that perished did so because they had crystallized, because they were incapable of adapting themselves to new conditions, new methods,…

— Eleanor Roosevelt

Of the twenty or so civilizations known to modern Western historians, all except our own appear to be dead or moribund, and, when we…

— Arnold J. Toynbee