Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes About Earth

Quotes about: Earth

• Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Running, Errors, Light

  "The Sixth Extinction?" by Elizabeth Kolbert, www.newyorker.com. May 25, 2009.

• The Earth is big. There are huge natural forces that have worked over geological time. But it turns out, when you look carefully at the geological time, you can't find anything like us.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Looks, Earth, Natural

  Source: www.motherjones.com

• For a long time, science has gone in the direction of sort of putting people in their place. We learned that the sun doesn't revolve around the Earth, the Earth revolves around the sun; we learned that we're just another species, evolved, like all other species, so we're just another animal, really.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Animal, Long, People

  Source: www.pbs.org

• You're an animal that needs to move across the landscape, you can't anymore, and that's another way we're just changing the surface of the Earth in very dramatic ways.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Moving, Animal, Earth

  Source: www.pbs.org

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