154 Quotes About Extinction

No influence of ours can save your species from destruction. Nothing could save it but a profound change in your own nature; and that cannot be. Wandering among you, we move always with fore-knowledge of the doom which your own imperfection imposes on you. Even if we could, we would not change it; for it is a theme required in the strange music of the spheres.

Extinction rates soar, and the texture of life changes.

We are not sure whether the world ever physically comes to extinction. It may or it may not. But, the moment a person dies everything comes to extinction for him. His world is devastated….I believe that one should fully live the life before it comes to extinction.

ليس مستحيلا في منطق التاريخ أن يكون العرب بمثابة الهنود الحمر يتضاءلون ثم ينتهي مصيرهم إلى محابس ينحصرون فيها ثم إلى إنقراض فالحياة لمن هو أكثر علما وفاعلية ونشاطا وليس وراء هذة الحقيقة حقيقة أعلى

There is a name for the tsunami wave of extermination: the Holocene extinction event. There's no asteroid this time, only human behavior, behavior that we could choose to stop. Adolph Eichman's excuse was that no one told him that the concentration camps were wrong. We've all seen the pictures of the drowning polar bears. Are we so ethically numb that we need to be told this is wrong?

He sat there thinking of Man's capacity for the wiping out of species--sometimes in hate or fear, at other times for the simple love of gain.

Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.

It will make the extinction of species much more likely,

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.