Extinction Quotes
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Extinction Quotes & Sayings
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The buffaloes are gone.And those who saw the buffaloes are gone. — Carl Sandburg
Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.
— David Suzuki
The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
— Lester B. Pearson
Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction.
— R. Buckminster Fuller
Every day on this planet some species that doesn't draw the attention of humans goes extinct.
— Liu Cixin
Tyranny is the fiercest form of slavery. Terrorist is the most ferocious form of slavery. We are all slaves until every human is free from both.
— James Morris Robinson
Your shield must surpass your weaponry.
— Toba Beta
Peace is the ultimate weapon of mankind to save the future generations from extinction!
— Avijeet Das
What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.
— Leonardo DiCaprio
Love is active, not passive. It is our love for one another, for Mother Earth, for our fellow creatures that compels us to act on their behalf.
— Laurence Overmire
The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.
— Edward Teller
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
— Robert Maynard Hutchins
An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.
— Peter Drucker
If there's been epidemic extinction and ecospace opens up, rats may be best placed to take advantage of that.
— Elizabeth Kolbert
All this I bear, for, what I seek, I know: Peace, peace is what I seek, and public calm: Endless extinction of unhappy hates.
— Matthew Arnold
Don't believe what you hear about those penguins. A species of lazy waddlers. Their extinction is immanent.
— Benson Bruno
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.
— George C. Williams
He sat there thinking of Man's capacity for the wiping out of speciessometimes in hate or fear, at other times for the simple love of gain. — Clifford D. Simak
My enlightenment comes from the lucid awareness of my extinction not the dream of my eternal ego.
— Christopher Zzenn Loren
What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.
— Ernest Becker
If we do not save the environment, then whatever we do in civil rights will be of no meaning, because then we will have the equality of extinction.
— James L. Farmer Jr.
We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.
— Graciela Chichilnisky
Like us, those vanished warriors planted their standards in the sands of their own self-summoned extinction.
— Steven Pressfield
Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.
— Robert T. Bakker
There is no place in nature for extinction.
— Lucretius
Cultures have gone down and rebuilt again and I'm sure we're all facing the same level of extinction.
— Justin Broadrick
The extinction of all reality is a concept no resignation can encompass. Until annihilation comes. And all grand ideas are seen for what they are.
— Cormac McCarthy
Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.
— Stephen Jay Gould
What doesn't KILL me makes me stronger ... Except for the extinction of COFFEE ... that might kill me.
— Tanya Masse
Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
— Jasper Fforde
If global extinction is to be avoided, woman must unite and come to terms with their destiny.
— Frederick Lenz
People shop and learn in a whole new way compared to just a few years ago, so marketers need to adapt or risk extinction.
— Brian Halligan
The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but one weedy species.
— Elizabeth Kolbert
The economists have us well along the way of the greatest mass extinction event in human history.
— Steven Magee
Extinction rates soar, and the texture of life changes.
— Elizabeth Kolbert
This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive.
— Rivera Sun
Freedom of religion is not enough; we need the extinction of it, because no one has turned to be a religious by their own choice.
— M.F. Moonzajer
Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.
— Stephen Kinzer
The human will be the only mammal in history to fully understand that its own self inflicted extinction is well underway.
— Steven Magee
We're seeing right now that a mass extinction can be caused by human beings.
— Elizabeth Kolbert
Oh. Come on! I left my backpack on the bus. According to Darwin, you're a prime candidate for extinction. Too stupid to live!
— Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
The progress of an artist is a continual self-sacrifice, a continual extinction of personality.
— T. S. Eliot
Nature does not know extinction, only transformation
— Werner Von Braun
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
— Carl Sagan
The alternative to extinction is stagnation, and stagnation is seldom a good thing.
— Ian Tattersall
One in eight plant species face extinction.
— David Attenborough
200 The Industrial Revolution. Family and community are replaced by state and market. Massive extinction of plants and animals.
— Yuval Noah Harari
In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.
— Samuel Beckett
The money to be made is clearly more important than the extinctions we cause, including our own.
— Guy R. McPherson
There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.
— Heston Blumenthal
America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.
— Nick Clooney
It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
— Wade Davis
The surest way to ensure career extinction is to resist change and adaptation.
— Miles Anthony Smith
Leaders who ignore change risk extinction.
— Pat Williams
Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.
— Joel Garreau
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
— David Mitchell
Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power.
— Stephen Jay Gould
How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left.
— Henry Van Dyke
Mongols were "a race of people on the path to extinction, incapable of progress, doomed to be swallowed up by their neighbors.
— Willard Sunderland
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
— Ezra Pound
If I had a soul I sold it for pretty words If I had a body I used it up spurting my essence Allen Ginsberg warns you dont follow my path to extinction
— Allen Ginsberg
By a pair of herpetologists. It was titled Are We in the Midst of the Sixth Mass Extinction?
— Elizabeth Kolbert
Fulfil the needs of the soul, which travels beyond the death and which will survive the extinction of the world.
— Girdhar Joshi
As Hegel put it, only when it is dark does the owl of Minerva begin its flight. Only in extinction is the collector comprehend.
— Walter Benjamin
Extinction was a difficult concept for a 10-year-old.
— Nell Newman
A high jeopardy of extinction comes with territory. Islands are where species go to die.
— David Quammen
At its best, no art form is more thrilling than grand opera, yet none is at greater risk of following the dinosaurs down the cold road to extinction.
— Terry Teachout
Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
— Richard Ford
Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
— Barbara Block
You're hurt, she commented. And I care? Okay. It's official. I'm my own species now: pathetic-deathwish-osaurus ... I sooo hear extinction calling me.
— Mimi Jean Pamfiloff
I wish all men to be free. I wish the material prosperity of the already free which I feel sure the extinction of slavery would bring.
— Abraham Lincoln
We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction.
— Rob Nixon
