Dozen Quote by Victor Blanchard Scheffer

I think we're simply going to run out of Nature before we have a chance to destroy it.

— Douglas Coupland

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

It is folly to think that we can destroy one species and ecosystem after another and not affect humanity. When we save species, we're…

— Joel Sartore

With the advent of genetic engineering the time required for the evolution of new species may literally collapse.

— Dee Hock

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

You look at the fact that for millions of years species on earth have been developing and we've been knocking them off at like…

— Jon Fishman

destruction is easy for humans but creation is too difficult.

— Daniel J. Boorstin

Nature is actually resilient, if we take care to just stop actively destroying it.

— Barack Obama

The population of the planet is increasing at an alarming rate, and yet each day human beings manage to destroy ten species.

— Frederick Lenz

The struggle to save every possible species and ecosystem from the current wave of destruction is worthwhile. One day, perhaps within our lifetimes, they…

— George Monbiot

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to…

— E. O. Wilson

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