Extinction Quotes - Page 3

The diminution of public virtue is usually attended with that of public happiness, and the public liberty will not long survive the total extinction of morals.

We have decisively changed the carbon cycle, the nitrogen cycle, and the rate of extinction.

[On women:] We are all yeses. We are worthy enough, we passed inspection, we survived the great fetal oocyte extinctions. In that sense, at least - call it a mechanospiritual sense - we are meant to be. We are good eggs, every one of us.

I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.

To dismiss the current extinction wave on the grounds that extinctions are normal events is like ignoring a genocidal massacre on the grounds that every human is bound to die at some time anyway.

But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide.

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

What is the extinction of a condor to a child who has never seen a wren?

Corporate America is a 20th-century dinosaur, trembling on the edge of extinction, and the only way for you to have a genuinely secure future is for you to take control of that future.

If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of the Permian, we must stop at two degrees.

Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man.

The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.

On an overcrowded planet where more species slip toward extinction every day, should one species have the right to multiply and consume at will, even as it nudges others to oblivion?

I do not think that the government, under the guise of some phony, alarmist, pseudo-scientific rhetoric, should attempt to control the evolution of consciousness. After all, if these things truly are consciousness-expanding, it doesn't take too much intelligence to realize that it is the absence of consciousness that is causing our flirtation with extinction and planetary disaster.

Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.

Mass extinctions may not threaten distant futures, but they are decidedly unpleasant for species caught up in the throes of their power.

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, they wipe out some things and then 10 million years down the road we get new and interesting objects.But I tell you mass extinctions are really awful for folks caught in the midst of them.

Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.

There is no place in nature for extinction.

What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction.

The folly of war is that it can have no natural end except in the extinction an entire people.

We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.

When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.

A society where the simple many obey the few seers can live; a society where all were seers could live even more fully. But a society where the mass is still simple and the seers are no longer attended to can achieve only superficiality, baseness, ugliness, and in the end extinction. On or back we must go: to stay here is death.

The extinction rate is so huge now, we're to the stage where we've got to set up recombinant ecologies. There are no longer enough species left, anywhere, to hold the system together.