Dinosaurs Quotes - Page 4

• Above all, we should question the consumer ethic, which uses up non-renewable resources, creates inequality and injustice, generates pollution, destroys other species and upsets the balance of nature. The consumer ethic not only defiles the environment by creating undesirable change in the biosphere but also corrupts the mind and body by defining pleasure in terms of ownership and absorption. Waste itself is a human concept; everything in nature is eventually used. If human beings carry on in their present ways, they will one day be recycled along with the dinosaurs.

  Peter Marshall

  Inspiring, Creating, Upset

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• While we didn't know the dinosaurs personally, we do know that they were wiped out by an asteroid impact.

  Rusty Schweickart

  Impact, Asteroids, Knows

  Source: www.spiegel.de

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• Humanity is creating an extinction event that will make every war ever fought a footnote to history. We belong to the only generation in history that can turn this around - we're one step away from greatness or the biggest disaster since the meteor wiped out the dinosaurs.

  Louie Psihoyos

  War, Greatness, Creating

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• We live in a time where we have more extinction happening on our planet than since the dinosaurs were wiped out 50 million years ago.

  Jeff Corwin

  Years, Extinction, Planets

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• For some reason, everyone says "fashion is responsible for skinny models." I don't believe that myself. I believe consumers dictate commercial success and trends in a capitalistic society. So I believe if consumers wanted to see - like, who decided that Barney the Dinosaur was going to be a million-dollar industry?

  Kelly Cutrone

  Fashion, Believe, Dollars

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• Frankly, reviews aremostly for peoplewho still read.Like most of the written word, it isgoing the way of the dinosaur.

  Bruce Willis

  Way, Reviews, Written Word

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• A fully integrated culture would be like the dinosaurs, which had to perish because they were no longer able to adapt themselves to changes in the external environment.

  Carroll Quigley

  Would Be, Culture, Able

  Carroll Quigley (1979). “The evolution of civilizations: an introduction to historical analysis”, Liberty Fund Inc.

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• Godzilla was the most masterful of all dinosaur movies because it made you believe it was really happening.

  Steven Spielberg

  Believe, Made, Godzilla

  "The Making of Jurassic Park". Book by Don Shay and Jody Duncan, 1993.

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• More and more, as it becomes necessary to preserve the game, let us hope that the camera will largely supplant the rifle.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Games, Cameras, Rifles

  Theodore Roosevelt (2010). “The Green Roosevelt: Theodore Roosevelt in Appreciation of Wilderness, Wildlife, and Wild Places”, p.177, Cambria Press

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• Most composers and arrangers these days use computer programs and keyboards, but I'm one of those dinosaurs that still writes it down on score paper and still dreams it up in his ear first.

  Phil Coulter

  Dream, Writing, Use

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• How I hate the man who talks about the 'brute creation', with an ugly emphasis on Brute. Only Christians are capable of it. As for me, I am proud of my close kinship with other animals. I take a jealous pride in my Simian ancestry. I like to think that I was once a magnificent hairy fellow living in the trees and that my frame has come down through geological time via sea jelly and worms and Amphioxus, Fish, Dinosaurs, and Apes. Who would exchange these for the pallid couple in the Garden of Eden?

  W.N.P. Barbellion

  Christian, Couple, Hate

  W. N. P. Barbellion (2017). “The Journal of a Disappointed Man”, p.35, Penguin UK

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• Optimism is a good characteristic, but if carried to an excess, it becomes foolishness. We are prone to speak of the resources of this country as inexhaustible; this is not so.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Country, Optimism, Excess

  Theodore Roosevelt (1941). “Theodore Roosevelt Cyclopedia”

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• We need the stars... We need purpose! We need the image the Destiny to take root among the stars gives us of ourselves as a purposeful, growing species. We need to become the adult species that the Destiny can help us become! If we're to be anything other than smooth dinosaurs who evolve, specialize and die, we need the stars.... When we have no difficult, long-term purpose to strive toward, we fight each other. We destroy ourselves. We have these chaotic, apocalyptic periods of murderous craziness.

  Octavia Butler

  Stars, Fighting, Destiny

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• We have a right to expect that the best trained, the best educated men on the Pacific slope, the Rocky Mountains, and great plains States will take the lead in the preservation and right use of forests, in securing the right use of waters, and in seeing that our land policy is not twisted from its original purpose, but is perpetuated by amendment, by change when such change is necessary in the life of that purpose, the purpose being to turn the public domain into farms each to be the property of the man who actually tills it and makes his home in it.

  Theodore Roosevelt

  Home, Men, Land

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• When the dinosaurs go extinct and 75 percent of life goes extinct after a meteor hits the planet, that's an era boundary. That's when we change from the Mesozoic to the Cenozoic.

  Kenneth Lacovara

  Meteors, Eras, Boundaries

  "What's The Anthropocene?". "TED Radio Hour" with Guy Raz, www.npr.org. September 30, 2016.

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• Because our lungs regularly deal with carbon dioxide, they see nothing wrong with absorbing its cousin, SiO2, which can be fatal. Many dinosaurs might have died this way when a metropolis-sized asteroid or comet struck the earth 65 million years ago.

  Sam Kean

  Cousin, Years, Earth

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• The biggest bursts of speciation that we know about in the history of the earth are soon after great cataclysms, like the extinction of the dinosaurs, which create new opportunities, and all sorts of new forms spring up... So, quite often, the reasons for creativity depend on accidents or disasters that prevent the normal habits being carried out.

  Rupert Sheldrake

  Spring, Creativity, Opportunity

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• The oil dinosaurs want to win so badly in my home state because what happens here matters everywhere. The nation often follows where California goes.

  Rebecca Solnit

  Home, Winning, Oil

  "Jurassic Ballot: When Corporations Ruled the Earthrop 23" by Rebecca Solnit, www.huffingtonpost.com. October 25, 2010.

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• If incredible creatures like sharks can exist, why not Bigfoot? When I look at sharks, they're the most terrifying, monstrous, dinosaur-like things. To this day, I'm so fascinated by them and can't get my head around how they are on Planet Earth at all.

  Rachael Taylor

  Sharks, Looks, Why Not

  "Talking About Ghosts with Rachael Taylor". Interview with Mark Svartz, www.esquire.com. September 28, 2012.

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• In pre-school, I was drawing dinosaurs - I was huge into dinosaurs. I wanted to be a paleontologist, not a cartoonist or a filmmaker or anything like that - just a paleontologist. So I would draw dinosaurs.

  Jhonen Vasquez

  School, Drawing, Filmmaker

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• Dinosaur: I plan to use punctuated equilibrium to turn this zit into a third eye. Catbert: That's not a natural advantage. You'd better stay away from the fitter dinosaurs.

  Scott Adams

  Nature, Eye, Science

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• I'm basically a dinosaur. I don't use e-mail. But I do recognize the importance of science and the resulting possibilities.

  Bernard Marcus

  Use, Mail, Possibility

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• I've gone back in time to when dinosaurs weren't just confined to zoos.

  Homer

  Zoos, Gone, Back In Time

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• Individuals learn faster than institutions and it is always the dinosaur's brain that is the last to get the new messages.

  Hazel Henderson

  Brain, Society, Lasts

  Hazel Henderson (1988). “The Politics of the Solar Age: Alternatives to Economics”, Knowledge Systems

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• If you look at Gothic detailing right down to the bottom of a column or the capital of a column, it's a small version of the whole building; that's why, like dating the backbones of a dinosaur, a good historian can look at a detail of a Gothic building and tell you exactly what the rest of the building was, and infer the whole from the parts.

  Charles Jencks

  Dating, Details, Looks

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