Quotes About Extinction

Like us, those vanished warriors planted their standards in the sands of their own self-summoned extinction.

Allen: "One path leads to despair and utter hopelessness. The other, to total extinction. Let us pray we have the wisdom to choose correctly." Panic

Thomas argued that if these strange animals were truly extinct, it implied poor planning on God's part, threatening the ideal of God's perfection, therefore, such creatures must still be alive in remote places on earth. I argued that even God should be allowed to change his mind. "Why should God's perfection be based on having an unchanging

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or by duplication

Esta imprevisibilidad de la evolución indica que nada está escrito de antemano, que todo es posible. Muestra que el grupo biológico más floreciente puede extinguirse a causa de cambios en el medio físico o por culpa de la competencia con otros grupos de organismos. Ninguna forma de vida puede considerarse superior a las demás, porque ninguna está a salvo de la hecatombe.

En la imagen del árbol de la vida que tenía en su mente Darwin hay también mucha muerte. Un gran número de hojas secas yacen en el suelo, bajo la verde copa. Corresponden a los organismos desaparecidos que solo nos son conocidos por los fósiles, las hojas marchitas que en su día brillaron al sol.

It was a damned good thing men couldn't have children. Gregory took no shame in admitting that the human race would have died out generations earlier.

Frost You may wake up one day and find yourself extinct

as Sitting Bull was to lament years later, "A cold wind blew across the prairie when the last buffalo fell. A death wind for my people.

The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

We'll lose more species of plants and animals between 2000 and 2065 than we've lost in the last 65 million years. If we don't find answers to these problems, we're gonna be victims of this extinction event that we're at fault for.

As a kid, I knew all of the dinosaurs. It's one of those tragedies that I've forgotten what dinosaurs are cool.

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction.

Globally, 12 percent of bird species, 23 percent of mammals, and 32 percent of amphibians are at risk of extinction. Since 1970, global populations of these creatures have declined by nearly 30 percent. Just how these losses will shift the distribution of microbes between and across species, pushing some over the threshold, remains to be seen.53

But that immergence is not in the nature of an annihilation. Extinction is not the fulfilment of all this search and passion, suffering and rapture. The game would never have been begun if that were to be its ending.

Él lo sabe todo y lo consigue todo. Él te trae el libro más singular del más olvidado de los anticuarios alemanes. Es el hombre más capaz en toda Viena y además auténtico, un ejemplar de una raza en extinción, un saurio antediluviano de los libros.

Malcolm said, "You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct. Don't you have that feeling now?

Other animals fight for territory or food; but, uniquely in the animal kingdom, human beings fight for their 'beliefs.' The reason is that beliefs guide behavior, which has evolutionary importance among human beings. But at a time when our behavior may well lead us to extinction, I see no reason to assume we have any awareness at all. We are stubborn, self-destructive conformists. Any other view of our species is just a self-congratulatory delusion.

When the first giant bones were found in the 1820s and 1830s, scientists felt obliged to explain the bones as belonging to some oversize variant of a modern species. This was because it was believed that no species could ever become extinct, since God would not allow one of His creations to die. Eventually it became clear that this conception of God was mistaken, and the bones belonged to extinct animals.

In the lobby of the visitor center, the glass doors had been shattered, and a cold gray mist blew through the cavernous main hall. A sign that read WHEN DINOSAURS RULED THE EARTH dangled from one hinge, creaking in the wind.

En general, el promedio de vida de una especie era de cuatro millones de años. En el caso de los mamíferos se reducía a un millón de años. Transcurrido ese tiempo la especie desaparecía.

You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct. Don't you have that feeling now?

Extinction was simply proof of failure to adapt

You live with the threat of my extinction. I live with it too.