Caught Quote by Stephen Jay Gould

Extinction isn't pretty, especially when you know it's coming and do nothing about it.

— Rick Wilson

With respect to phenomena like mass extinction, somebody might say why worry about it because in a geological perspective mass extinctions aren't so bad,…

— Richard Lewontin

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

— Alice Roberts

“They may not become extinct immediately, but being pushed out of decaying or destroyed habitats eventually takes its toll. The concept is known as…

— Craig Childs

What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.

— Ernest Becker

It saddens me that in the 21st century, with all our knowledge and power, we are hearing more and more stories of possible extinctions…

— Gisele Bundchen

In the history of the world, all five mass extinctions have been accompanied by massive climate change, so we are facing an incredibly serious…

— Cameron Russell

The fate of hundreds of thousands of species on this planet may be decided in the next decade. To slow the rush to extinction,…

— Eban Goodstein

“Extinction, the irrevocable loss of a species, causes pain that can never find relief. It is an ache that will pass from generation to…

— Callum Roberts

The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of…

— E. O. Wilson

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

— Elizabeth Kolbert

To be fair, if we are having a mass extinction, we're in the early stages of it. I think it's knowing facts like that…

— Annalee Newitz