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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 causes may

Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.

Bill Gaede
extinction intelligent men

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.

Bill Mollison
extinction enough together
Education without execution is extinction by Bo Sanchez

Education without execution is extinction

Bo Sanchez
extinction execution

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 fantasy faces

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.

C. S. Lewis
extinction achieve simple
The buffaloes are gone. by Carl Sandburg

The buffaloes are gone.

Carl Sandburg
extinction saws gone

This fundamental subject of Natural Selection will be treated at some length in the fourth chapter; and we shall then see how Natural Selection almost inevitably causes much Extinction of the less improved forms of life and induces what I have called Divergence of Character.

Charles Darwin
extinction fundamentals character

Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them. There is no possibility of escaping from this conclusion.

Charles Lyell
extinction escaping science
When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is... by Darren Shan

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

Darren Shan
extinction bliss ignorance
One in eight plant species face extinction. by David Attenborough

One in eight plant species face extinction.

David Attenborough
extinction environmental eight
We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our... by David Foreman

We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight.

David Foreman
extinction sake may
In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human sp... by David Mitchell

In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction.

David Mitchell
extinction selfishness soul

The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.

Edward Teller
extinction inability race

If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign that something really serious is going on.

Elizabeth Kolbert
extinction serious watches
What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction w... by Ernest Becker

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

Ernest Becker
extinction insignificance men

The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter.

Eric Hoffer
extinction self matter

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

George C. Williams
extinction lineage special
But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a gui... by George MacDonald

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

George MacDonald
extinction guides light

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
extinction events firsts
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