Extinction Quotes - Page 12

No historian can take part with--or against--the forces he has to study. To him even the extinction of the human race should merely be a fact to be grouped with other vital statistics.

Henry Adams

Race, History, Statistics

The Education of Henry Adams Vis Interiae (p. 447)

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Anyone who does not see the vanity of the world is very vain himself. So who does not see it, apart from young people whose lives are all noise, diversions, and thoughts for the future? But take away their diversion and you will see them bored to extinction. Then they feel their nullity without recognizing it, for nothing could be more wretched than to be intolerably depressed as soon as one is reduced to introspection with no means of diversion.

Blaise Pascal

Mean, Vanity, People

Blaise Pascal (2008). “Human Happiness”, Penguin Group USA

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... why are so many religious people arguing about the origin of the species but so few concerned about the extinction of the species?

Brian D. McLaren

Religious, People, Environmental

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The technical definition of the Holocene has to do with the extinction of a snail species in Sicily.

Kenneth Lacovara

Definitions, Snail, Species

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

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Racism, pollution and the rest of it are themselves very close to extinction.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Racism, Pollution

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Many scientists would argue that we are now in what is called Extinction, and it's caused by this perfect extinction storm: climate change, habitat loss, pollution, unsustainable exploitation of species and habitat resources, and of course, human population explosion. All of these factors work together and conspire to drive a species to extinction on our planet, every half an hour.

Jeff Corwin

Loss, Perfect, Storm

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Shelters, conservationists, those concerned about unnecessary cruelty toward the animals we eat, and people working against species extinction fight to preserve the true riches of our planet, our real inheritance. These are big, critical goals.

April Gornik

Real, Fighting, Animal

"Our Real Wealth" by April Gornik, www.huffingtonpost.com. July 14, 2010.

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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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Today, due to the massive Chinese population transfer, the nation of Tibet truly faces the threat of extinction, along with its unique cultural heritage of Buddhist spirituality.

Dalai Lama

Buddhist, Unique, Chinese

Source: www.motherjones.com

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Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man.

Louie Psihoyos

Men, Mass Extinction, Age

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Oil is dead, on its way to extinction.

Ian Somerhalder

Oil, Way

Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place.

Iain Banks

Mean, Self, Common Sense

"Consider Phlebas (The Culture, Book 1)". Book by Iain Banks (Chapter 4 "Temple of Light", p. 96), 1987.

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Who in the world has not yearned for a loved one, has never said, If only he or she could come back just once, just one more time...? Despite the fact that it can never happen, never ever. Surely this is the saddest thing about our mortal world, and its sadness will go on shrouding human life like a blanket of fog until its final extinction.

Ismail Kadaré

Sadness, Fog, Finals

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China cares about its reputation and doesn't want to be known as the nation whose preferences drove the extinction of elephants.

Wayne Pacelle

Elephants, Care, Want

"Making Progress Against Animal Cruelty: An interview with Wayne Pacelle". Interview with Karen Dawn, progressive.org. July 20, 2016.

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To drive to extinction something He has created is wrong. He has a purpose for everything... We Christians have a responsibility to take the lead in caring for the earth.

Billy Graham

Christian, Responsibility, Caring

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A billion homo sapiens are added every 11 years to the planet. The hypertrophy of a single species pushes other life-forms out of bed and into extinction. The decline of biological diversity is real and severe. The alarming loss of soil fertility, forest cover, and coral reef viability and the release of fossilized CO2 that nature put away 300 million years ago in its march toward greater diversity - all these "losses" and many others are the result of one life-form annihilating other life-forms in its immoral confusion of "dominion" with "domination."

Leonard Sweet

Real, Loss, Years

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Australia has one of the worst mammalian extinction rates in the world.

Steve Irwin

Australia, World, Worst

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There is no place in nature for extinction.

Lucretius

Nature

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All of humanity is in peril of extinction if each one of us does not dare, now and henceforth, always to tell only the truth, and all the truth, and to do so promptly - right now.

R. Buckminster Fuller

Humanity, Doe, Peril

"Critical Path". Book by R. Buckminster Fuller, 1981.

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Everywhere in science the talk is of winners, patents, pressures, money, no money, the rat race, the lot; things that are so completely alien ... that I no longer know whether I can be classified as a modern scientist or as an example of a beast on the way to extinction.

June Goodfield

Race, Patents, Example

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Historically speaking, the Christian religion is nothing but a Jewish sect... After the destruction of Judaism, the extinction of Christian slave morals must follow logically... Ah, the God of the deserts, that crazed, stupid, vengeful Asiatic despot with his power to make laws!

Adolf Hitler

Christian, Religious, Stupid

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When the moon shall have faded out from the sky, and the sun shall shine at noonday a dull cherry red, and the seas shall be frozen over, and the icecap shall have crept downward to the equator from either pole . . . when all the cities shall have long been dead and crumbled into dust, and all life shall be on the last verge of extinction on this globe; then, on a bit of lichen, growing on the bald rocks beside the eternal snows of Panama, shall be seated a tiny insect, preening its antennae in the glow of the worn-out sun, the sole survivor of animal life on this our earth - a melancholy bug.

William Jacob Holland

Life, Animal, Moon

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There is a peculiar pathos in the extinction of a nation.

Homer Hulbert

Peculiar, Pathos, Nations

Homer Bezaleel Hulbert (1906). “The Passing of Korea”

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An asteroid can literally destroy 80 or 90 percent of the species that are alive on Earth. These are big events. I mean, this is called extinction.

Rusty Schweickart

Mean, Alive, Earth

"Asteroid". "NOVA scienceNOW" with Neil Degrasse Tyson, www.pbs.org. October 3, 2006.

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Tamed as it may be, sexuality remains one of the demonic forces in human consciousness - pushing us at intervals close to taboo and dangerous desires, which range from the impulse to commit sudden arbitrary violence upon another person to the voluptuous yearning for the extinction of one's consciousness, for death itself. Even on the level of simple physical sensation and mood, making love surely resembles having an epileptic fit at least as much as, if not more than, it does eating a meal or conversing with someone.

Susan Sontag

Love, Simple, Desire

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