Quotes by Extinction 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 extinctioncausesmay Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species. Bill Gaede extinctionintelligentmen 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 extinctionenoughtogether Education without execution is extinction Bo Sanchez extinctionexecution 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 extinctionfantasyfaces 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 extinctionachievesimple The buffaloes are gone. Carl Sandburg extinctionsawsgone 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 extinctionfundamentalscharacter 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 extinctionescapingscience When it comes to impending, unavoidable extinction, ignorance is bliss. Darren Shan extinctionblissignorance One in eight plant species face extinction. David Attenborough extinctionenvironmentaleight We advocate biodiversity for biodiversity's sake. It may take our extinction to set things straight. David Foreman extinctionsakemay In an individual, selfishness uglifies the soul; for the human species, selfishness is extinction. David Mitchell extinctionselfishnesssoul The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function. Edward Teller extinctioninabilityrace 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 extinctionseriouswatches What man really fears is not so much extinction, but extinction with insignificance. Ernest Becker extinctioninsignificancemen The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter. Eric Hoffer extinctionselfmatter Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it. George C. Williams extinctionlineagespecial But when we are following the light, even its extinction is a guide. George MacDonald extinctionguideslight 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 extinctioneventsfirsts12345»
