Extinction Quotes - Page 7

• 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

  Events, Firsts, Action

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• [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.

  Natalie Angier

  Women, Eggs, Enough

  Natalie Angier (1999). “Woman: An Intimate Geography”, p.30, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• In this twenty-first century, there's no one like Sharona Muir who can write, in bright accurate language, animals real or imaginary in an updated bestiary that riffs on evolution, extinction, and what it means to be human among other species. We need this view, and you'll be right there with her on every page of Invisible Beasts.

  John Felstiner

  Real, Mean, Writing

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• Therefore, this is a question of whether we, humans, can change our culture and begin to truly care for all Creation, nurture all Life and thereby avert our own extinction. As such, this is a deeply spiritual issue and we can begin to act today, regardless of age. But the good news is that this is not a question of whether we will change our culture, but a question of when.

  Shailesh Rao

  Spiritual, Issues, Growth

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• Climate change is not a major issue because it will cause sea level rises or temperature increases, since we know how to live at higher elevations and regulate the temperature within our homes. It is a major issue because ecosystems are finding it difficult to adapt to the rapidity of the climate and environmental changes and are dying off, thereby accelerating the species extinction that is already underway due to our consumption habits.

  Shailesh Rao

  Nature, Home, Sea

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• As long as we are a single-planet species, we are vulnerable to extinction by a planetwide catastrophe, natural or self-induced. Once we become a multiplanet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward.

  David Grinspoon

  Moon, Self, Long

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

  Robert Pyle

  Children, Wrens

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• I remain fearless of airplanes after 9/11. But during a trip to Los Angeles on a Boeing 767, I couldn't keep my mind from drifting: What's the largest piece of this airplane that could crash into the World Trade Center, explode out the other side, and survive intact? The landing gear? My computer battery? My belt buckle? My wedding ring?

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Airplane, Fearless, Mind

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• When you're a hammer (as the saying goes), all your problems look like nails. If you're a meteorite expert pondering the sudden extinction of boatloads of species, you'll want to say an impact did it. If you're an igneous petrologist, volcanoes did it. If you're into spaceborne bioclouds, an interstellar virus did it. If you're a hypernova expert, gamma rays did it.

  Neil deGrasse Tyson

  Impact, Volcanoes, Rays

  Neil deGrasse Tyson (2007). “Death by Black Hole: And Other Cosmic Quandaries”, p.281, W. W. Norton & Company

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• We can't say that when x happens we get a mass extinction. To the extent we understand mass extinction, one has been caused by glaciation event, one has been caused by a massive climate change, and one has been caused by an asteroid. These events turn out to have no precedent.

  Elizabeth Kolbert

  Mass Extinction, Climate, Events

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• 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

  Watches, Serious, Lifetime

  Source: www.motherjones.com

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• We're [humans] running great risks of doing things that will not be good for us. The cost can be very high indeed if we reach the point where we can't adapt to our own increasingly rapid adaptations. We run the risk of early extinction. So this certainly isn't a triumphalist story, but it is trying to get at what, in the very long run, leads to the amazing creatures that we are.

  Robert Neelly Bellah

  Running, Long, Risk

  Source: blogs.ssrc.org

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• The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.

  Lester B. Pearson

  Peace, Choices, Individual

  Lester B. Pearson (1964). “The Four Faces of Peace and the International Outlook: Statements”, McClelland and Stewart

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• Its haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

  Wade Davis

  Haunting, Half, World

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• Genocide, the physical extinction of a people, is universally condemned, but ethnocide, the destruction of people's way of life, is not only not condemned, it's universally celebrated as part of a development strategy.

  Wade Davis

  Motivation, Inspiration, People

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• There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.

  Heston Blumenthal

  Ocean, Taken, Blue

  "Biography/ Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.

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• It was the nature of his profession that his experience with death should be greater than for most and he said that while it was true that time heals bereavement it does so only at the cost of the slow extinction of those loved ones from the heart's memory which is the sole place of their abode then or now. Faces fade, voices dim. Seize them back, whispered the sepulturero. Speak with them. Call their names. Do this and do not let sorrow die for it is the sweetening of every gift.

  Cormac McCarthy

  Memories, Heart, Names

  Cormac McCarthy (2010). “The Crossing”, p.296, Pan Macmillan

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• A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.

  Thomas Hardy

  Years, Long, Lasts

  Thomas Hardy (2016). “The Return of the Native”, p.80, Thomas Hardy

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• We who revel in nature's diversity and feel instructed by every animal tend to brand Homo sapiens as the greatest catastrophe since the Cretaceous extinction.

  Stephen Jay Gould

  Nature, Animal, Diversity

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• Record stores are the backbone of the recorded music culture. It's where we go to network, browse around, and find new songs to love. The stores whose staff live for music have spread the word about exciting new things faster and with more essence than either radio or the press. Any artist that doesn't support the wonderful ma and pa record stores across America is contributing to our own extinction.

  Joan Jett

  Song, Artist, Essence

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• I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems - climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage - we surely do. But ultimately we knock them down.

  Peter Diamandis

  Motivation, Inspiration, Water

  "Abundance is our future". TED2012, www.ted.com. February 2012.

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

  Bill Gaede

  Men, Intelligent, Surprise

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• Loss of genetic diversity in agriculture is leading us to a rendezvous with extinction--to the doorstep of hunger on a scale we refuse to imagine. To simplify the environment as we have done with agriculture is to destroy the complex interrelationships that hold the natural world together. Reducing the diversity of life, we narrow our options for the future and render our own survival more precarious.

  Cary Fowler

  Loss, Agriculture, Diversity

  Cary Fowler, Patrick R. Mooney (1990). “Shattering: Food, Politics, and the Loss of Genetic Diversity”, p.9, University of Arizona Press

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• As long as hierarchy persists, as long as domination organises humanity around a system of elites, the project of dominating nature will continue to exist and inevitably lead our planet to ecological extinction.

  Murray Bookchin

  Nature, Persistence, Long

  "Toward an Ecological Society". Book by Murray Bookchin, 1980.

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• My happiest hours are those in which I think nothing, want nothing, when I do not even dream, but lose myself in some spurious vegetable torpor, moss growing on the surface of life. Without a trace of bitterness I savour my absurd awareness of being nothing, a mere foretaste of death and extinction.

  Fernando Pessoa

  Dream, Thinking, Vegetables

  Fernando Pessoa (2010). “The Book of Disquiet”, p.50, Profile Books

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