Quotes About Extinction

All the condylarths were doomed to extinction ten million years before the age of mankind. But for now they were in their pomp, top predators of the world forest.

An asteroid collision would be something against which we have no defence. The last big such collision with us was about sixty-six million years ago and that is thought to have killed the dinosaurs, and it will happen again. This is not science fiction; it is guaranteed by the laws of physics and probability.

from ourselves. I am convinced that humans need to leave Earth. If we stay, we risk being annihilated.

Estoy convencido de que los humanos necesitamos dejar la Tierra para evitar correr el riesgo de ser aniquilados.

Rising temperatures, reduction of the polar ice caps, deforestation, over-population, disease, war, famine, lack of water and decimation of animal species; these are all solvable but so far have not been solved.

global warming, finding space and resources for the massive increase in the Earth's human population, rapid extinction of other species, the need to develop renewable energy sources, the degradation of the oceans, deforestation and epidemic diseases—just to name a few.

Pada waktu itu, kecuali kita sudah ke luar Tata Surya, umat manusia akan telah lama punah, musnah bersama-sama Matahari kita!

Esto no debería preocuparnos demasiado, puesto que para entonces, a menos que tengamos colonias más allá del sistema solar, la humanidad habrá desaparecido hace tiempo, extinguida con la muerte de nuestro Sol.

Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.

Freedom is a fragile thing and is never more than one generation away from extinction.

As the colonial insects did to the other insects, we have pushed all other mammals to the margins, to extinction, or to servitude.

la extinción del deseo no es sólo el ideal de santurrones puritanos, sino de personas que han reflexionado mucho sobre la condición humana, como los budistas.

Screw humanity. I don't give the whole stinking bunch of us more than a couple of generations and good riddance. The universe is better off without us.

Ronald Reagan always said that freedom was one generation away from extinction. It looks like we've finally found that generation.

Egypt is home to the largest Christian population in the Middle East, largely because they've been persecuted to brink of extinction everywhere else in the region.

There's something about dinosaurs that should be very humbling to human beings.

it is particularly striking that no less than thirty-five genera of mammals (with each genus consisting of several species) became extinct in North America between 12,900 and 11,600 years ago, i.e. precisely during the mysterious Younger Dryas cold

Ours is an overpopulated, under educated, shithole in the throes of mass extinctions - it's a wonderful world.

Why shouldn't we use all our brilliance to leap in as many single bounds as it takes to a world beyond ours, threatened by overpopulation, mass species extinction, environmental degradation, hunger, and exploitation? Superman and his pals would figure a way out of any stupid cul-de-sac we could find ourselves in—and we made Superman, after all.

So ended the days of the last dinosaur circus.

The fugitive kind run, trying against their hearts to annihilate the past, and with it every tell-tale trace of what they were, where they came from, and those who once loved them. And they run into that extinction of themselves, to survive, but they always fail. We can deny the past, but we can't escape its torment because the past is a speaking shadow that keeps pace with the truth of what we are, step for step, until we die.

I want to interpret the natural world and our links to it. It's driven by the belief of many world-class scientists that we're in the midst of an extinction crisis... This time it's us that's doing it.

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

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced.