Quotes About Survival

We are the first species capable of self-annihilation.

The hallmark of the human species is great adaptability.

Human beings are remarkably resilient. When you think about it, our species has been teetering upon the edge of the existential cliff since Hiroshima. In short, we endure.

The scariest animal is without doubt human beings. We are the only species that decimates the very environment that we require to live.

We, Homo sapiens, destroyed the majority of the large mammalian species in North America and Australasia just over 10,000 years ago. We, Homo sapiens, now are destroying the other species that presently exist on this planet at a rate of about 15,000 to 20,000 per year.

Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'

Married people from my generation are like an endangered species!

Our planetary system is affected by a magnitude of force as powerful as any naturally occurring global catastrophe, but one caused solely by a single species: us.

We need to take a leaf out of nature's book. Any species that clones itself will eventually be attacked by a parasite, leading to an inevitable population crash.

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design.

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.

Mr. Darwin refers to the multitude of the individual of every species, which, from one cause or another, perish either before, or soon after attaining maturity.

The human species really could have faced global thermonuclear war. During seventy years of Cold War we grew used to it.

We'll all die out eventually. Humans will be gone. And all I'm saying is, when people worry about polar bears disappearing or whatever, it's like, 'Well that's life, things will come and go, we'll find new species.'

When I think about life on Earth, there should not be a species like us. And if there was, we should be out in the jungle killing each other in small groups. That's what you should expect.

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.

The way to understand how different species evolved is to think about the niches that they fill in an ecosystem - basically, how they make a living.

There's money to be made by driving a species extinct.

If you think about it, every single species is endangered. Homo sapiens at the front of the line, mosquitoes and lawyers at the back.

If you don't have manufactured items or anything we think of as 'civilization,' then you're living according to your species.

If I'm right, the only reason our species is still around is because of our friendship with the canines.

Animals need to understand other species, if only to prey on them or escape from them.

Violence is literally the glue of the cycle of life, and yet I think that we're the only species that does it maliciously.

Once we become a multiplanet species, our chances to live long and prosper will take a huge leap skyward.