154 Quotes About Extinction
- Author Paul Ehrlich
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Few problems are less recognized, but more important than, the accelerating disappearance of the earth's biological resources. In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it is perched.
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- Author Michael Poeltl
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To fight against extinction is obligatory. To invent in the face of extinction is distracting.
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- Author Elizabeth Kolbert
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His interest, after all, was not in the origin of species but in their demise.
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- Author J. -F. Gariépy
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The afternoon sun warms napping cats, without cooking them.
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- Author J. -F. Gariépy
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The afternoon sun warms napping cats, without cooking them. (The Revolutionary Phenotype)
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- Author Mokokoma Mokhonoana
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Human beings are important only to the survival of the human race.
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- Author Steven Magee
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Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence
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- Author Isaac Asimov
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...the Earth in general can only support so much animal life, and for every aditional pound of human beings and his animal favorites, a pound of other animal life must disappear.
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- Author Jean Baudrillard
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Cloning must be sacrilege to the doctrines of metempsychosis, as it interrupts the sequence of reincarnations and the migration of souls. But it is also sacrilegious where the laws of evolution are concerned, since it is tantamount to an unlimited perpetuation of the species.In the body, a will to help begins to form. It is the body that chooses, among the innumerable pathogenic elements at its disposal, the illness that will purify you by diet and fever.
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