Permian Mass Quotes

#1. It's] pretty clear that times of high carbon dioxide - and especially times when carbon dioxide levels rapidly rose - coincided with the mass extinctions," writes University of Washington paleontologist and End-Permian mass extinction expert Peter Ward. "Here is the driver of extinction.

Peter Brannen

#2. People will always be more willing to give you things that they think you don't need.

Marshall Sylver

#3. Sleep is death's younger brother, and so like him, that I never dare trust him without my prayers.

Thomas Browne

#4. When I'm writing, I am concentrating almost wholly on concrete detail: the color a room is painted, the way a drop of water rolls off a wet leaf after a rain.

Donna Tartt

#5. Nature never appeals to intelligence until habit and instinct are useless. There is no intelligence where there is no need of change.

H.G.Wells

#6. I like the club. It looks nice with all the tables out. They were freaking out, the Gilly's people.

Kim Deal

#7. 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.

Mark Lynas

#8. You taught me that this world is not about gay people being accepted by us, but rather us being accepted by you.

Alec John Belle

#9. A knowledge both of the factors of evolution and how they operate in human society becomes necessary if we are to develop a sound social order.

Conway Zirkle

#10. And, finally, as a Republican, I believe it is important to keep our word and keep our covenant, and that is exactly what we should do with the Wright amendment today.

Michael Burgess

#11. Beautiful objects are wrought by study through effort, but ugly things are reaped automatically without toil.

Democritus

#12. Nowhere on your birth certificate did it say life would be fair

Trevor Jones

#13. Training and working in Philadelphia is a very unusual situation because that city does believe that Rocky is real. No one calls me Sylvester, it's Rocky.

Sylvester Stallone