Top 373 Extinction Quotes & Sayings - Page 2
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Last updated on April 19, 2025.
China cares about its reputation and doesn't want to be known as the nation whose preferences drove the extinction of elephants.
It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem.
Our planet has not seen an extinction crisis as serious as the one in progress for 65 million years.
America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.
I don't think college wrestling is in danger of extinction by any means. But I am concerned if one program drops.
EXTINCTION, n. The raw material out of which theology created the future state.
The government of the United States is a device for maintaining in perpetuity the rights of the people, with the ultimate extinction of all privileged classes.
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.
I was trying to develop a notion of "non-dialectical negativity" as part of a concept of extinction that would transform the understanding of death and time elaborated in phenomenology.
Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own.
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.
The extinction of the human race will come from its inability to EMOTIONALLY comprehend the exponential function.
Deeper than temperature and the extinction of the polar bear is the idea that we all share this beautiful, ailing planet, Democrats and Republicans alike.
People shop and learn in a whole new way compared to just a few years ago, so marketers need to adapt or risk extinction.
America faces a fundamental choice: either the blessings of liberty or the servitude of liberalism. In the political struggle for survival, one or the other is headed for extinction.
Our planet is currently undergoing a mass extinction of species called the Anthropocene - the Age of Man.
One of the laws of paleontology is that an animal which must protect itself with thick armour is degenerate. It is usually a sign that the species is on the road to extinction.
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.
If we are to save humanity and the planet from the worst mass extinction of all time, worse even than that at the end of the Permian, we must stop at two degrees.
Cultures have gone down and rebuilt again and I'm sure we're all facing the same level of extinction.
With 'Extinction Machine,' I wanted to start some conversations about whether we're alone in the universe and what that might mean.
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.
Sharks are being driven to extinction because people want to eat their fins and their flesh.
A widespread taste for pornography means that nature is alerting us to some threat of extinction.
Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction. This is serious. This may be the ultimate final exam.
We had a 25-step process coming up with the name Extinction Rebellion.
Cats aren't really friendly, they're just cozying up to the dominant life-form as a hedge against extinction.
The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment.
We are in the midst of the 6th largest extinction event in the history of the plant and the first caused by human action.
The extinction of race consciousness as between Muslims is one of the outstanding achievements of Islam, and in the contemporary world there is, as it happens, a crying need for the propagation of this Islamic virtue.
Man is an over-complicated organism. If he is doomed to extinction he will die out for want of simplicity.
The short-lived self, teetering on the edge of extinction, is the only thing that can ever really matter.
A decade down the line, I don't want to sit back and think that I didn't do anything to stop disasters like the extinction of certain species.
The extinctions ongoing worldwide promise to be at least as great as the mass extinction that occurred at the end of the age of dinosaurs.
Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.
How fascinating is death, the extinction of life. One moment here and the next gone. The light put out and only the empty bag of the body left.
The UN has given us until 2020 to change the course of humanity. If that doesn't happen human extinction in my children's lifetime is a possibility.
A blaze of love and extinction, was better than a lantern glimmer of the same which should last long years.
It is essential to release humanity from the false fixations of yesterday which seem now to bind it to a rationale of action leading only to extinction.
Protecting eagles from the threat of extinction is a conservation success story that we must prudently safeguard for future generations to come.
There's no question that the gay movement would not be as far along as it is without AIDS. But how can there be any other issue in the face of death, possible extinction?
I'm not saying we don't have our set of problems - climate crisis, species extinction, water and energy shortage - we surely do. But ultimately we knock them down.
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.
Only sometimes you can't feel anything about a subject without hypothesizing its extinction.
The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
For my own part, I do not want the freedom of India if it means extinction of English or the disappearance of Englishmen.
But the main thing is to give people permission to feel it and to put grief at the heart of what Extinction Rebellion's about.
The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem.
There are so many issues in our oceans - like the near extinction of blue fin tuna - that should be taken more seriously worldwide.
Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species.
The human heart is not yet so corroded that it can read off the extinction of these two men without a shock to the very roots of its belief in justice and humanity.
No move towards the extinction of the passion between the sexes has taken place in the five or six thousand years that the world has existed.
The Cretaceous-Paleogene extinction was a horrible event. Dinosaurs and many other animals and plants were killed.
Life is a copiously branching bush, continually pruned by the grim reaper of extinction, not a ladder of predictable progress.
If the worst comes true, and the paper book joins the papyrus scroll and parchment codex in extinction, we will miss, I predict, a number of things about it.
The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.
Death is not extinction. Neither the soul nor the body is extinguished or put out of existence.
I did not set out to explain the extinction of the dinosaurs. I'm a particle physicist, and I was actually thinking about dark matter along with some collaborators.
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign that something really serious is going on.
