Quotes and Sayings About Extinction
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EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
-- Ambrose Bierce -
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.
-- Asa Gray -
Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.
-- Bill Gaede -
It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy.
-- Brian Perkins -
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
-- Carl Sagan -
The buffaloes are gone. And those who saw the buffaloes are gone.
-- Carl Sandburg -
When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss.
-- Darren Shan -
One in eight plant species face extinction.
-- David Attenborough -
We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.
-- David Foreman -
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.
-- David Mitchell -
No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet.
-- Derrick Jensen -
The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.
-- Edward Teller -
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
-- Elizabeth Kolbert -
What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance.
-- Ernest Becker -
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.
-- George C. Williams -
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 -
He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
-- Hillel the Elder -
There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation.
-- Homer Hulbert -
Extinction is the beginning of the path: it is traveling to God Most High. Guidance comes afterwards. What I mean by guidance is the guidance of God, as described by the Friend of God, Abraham: "Lo! I am going unto my Lord Who will guide me."
-- Ibn Ata Allah -
Who in the world has not yearned for a loved one, has never said, If only he or she could come back just once, just one more time...? Despite the fact that it can never happen, never ever. Surely this is the saddest thing about our mortal world, and its sadness will go on shrouding human life like a blanket of fog until its final extinction.
-- Ismail Kadaré -
A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
-- J. G. Ballard -
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. -
Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
-- Jasper Fforde -
Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.
-- Joel Garreau -
There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction
-- John Foster Dulles -
I can't visualize the situation in which we nuke ourselves into extinction.
-- John Keegan -
Since after extinction no one will be present to take responsibility, we have to take full responsibility now.
-- Jonathan Schell -
There are certain prehistoric things that swim beyond extinction.
-- Karen Russell -
One can live with the thought of one's own death. It is the thought of the death of the words and books that is terrifying for that is the deeper extinction.
-- Lance Morrow
