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Quotes About Survival

We must do better or perish as the nation we know today.
~ Unknown
If you just take a single human and put him or her in the forest he or she might not do very well without some sort of education which he got or she got from some tribe.
~ Bill Nye
Higher education is a business that doesn't know it's going out of business.
~ Mark Cuban
History is a race between education and catastrophe.
~ H. G. Wells
You survived the abuse, you're going to survive the recovery.
~ Mariska Hargitay
The resort to human flesh, often after months of ever-increasing hunger pangs, appeared to be an animallike reaction without painful emotional overtones.
~ Pitirim Sorokin
The amygdala in the emotional center sees and hears everything that occurs to us instantaneously and is the trigger point for the fight or flight response.
~ Daniel Goleman
Reading is not simply an intellectual pursuit but an emotional and spiritual one. It lights the candle in the hurricane lamp of self; that's why it survives
~ Anna Quindlen
'Son of Saul' film is extremely emotional; you're watching people walk in, you're watching people die. It centers around a child that goes into the ovens but survives the gassing.
~ Bun B
We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should.
~ Kurt Vonnegut
The most powerful natural species are those that adapt to environmental change without losing their fundamental identity which gives them their competitive advantage.
~ Charles Darwin
Phasing out the human race will solve every problem on earth, social and environmental.
~ David Foreman
For if one link in nature's chain might be lost, another might be lost, until the whole of things will vanish by piecemeal.
~ Thomas Jefferson
There are two problems for our species' survival - nuclear war and environmental catastrophe - and we're hurtling towards them. Knowingly.
~ Noam Chomsky
... 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
The Earth's population will be culled from today's 6.6 billion to as few as 500 million, with most of the survivors living in the far latitudes - Canada, Iceland, Scandinavia, the Arctic Basin.
~ James Lovelock
Wolves are very resourceful. All they need to survive is for people not to shoot them.
~ Unknown
We are in an environmental crisis which threatens the survival of this nation, and of the world as a suitable place of human habitation.
~ Barry Commoner
One in eight plant species face extinction.
~ David Attenborough
Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.
~ David Suzuki
We are facing a tipping point of environmental crisis unprecedented in human history and our very survival is dependent on protecting nature.
~ Leonardo DiCaprio
Sharks are just evil bastards. I'm quite happy if all the sharks just went, because they eat fish and us. And we need the fish.
~ Eddie Izzard
Global warming threatens the survival of our species.
~ Lucien Bouchard
Mankind is busily manufacturing its way into extinction.
~ Steven Magee