Quotes On Extinct Species

#1. From her own life experience Keldaren knew that loveable hunks were in short supply anywhere in the galaxy, loveable hunks who knew her were an extinct species, and that more marketing companies than friends had her phone number.

L.L. Watkin

#2. Now, scientists could reconstitute many more species by replacing the DNA of closely related creatures with DNA from extinct species.

Anonymous

#3. There is no good scientific reason to bring back an extinct species. Why would one bring them back? To put them in a theme park?

Hendrik Poinar

#4. Certainly paleontologists have found samples of an extremely small fraction, only, of the earth's extinct species, and even for groups that are most readily preserved and found as fossils they can never expect to find more than a fraction.

George Gaylord Simpson

#5. A language, like a species, when extinct, never ... reappears.

Charles Darwin

#6. Our probable ancestors, Homo erectus and Homo habilis -now extinct- are classified as of the same genus (Homo) but of different species, although no one (at least lately) has attempted the appropriate experiments to see if crosses of them with us would produce fertile offspring.

Carl Sagan

#7. I think it inevitably follows, that as new species in the course of time are formed through natural selection, others will become rarer and rarer, and finally extinct. The forms which stand in closest competition with those undergoing modification and improvement will naturally suffer most.

Charles Darwin

#8. Dr. S. Dillon Ripley, secretary of the Smithsonian Institute, believes that in 25 years, somewhere between 75 and 80 percent of all the species of living animals will be extinct.

Gaylord Nelson

#9. We belong to a short-lived genus of species. All of our cousins are already extinct. What's more, we do damage. The brutal climate and environmental changes that we have triggered are unlikely to spare us. For

Carlo Rovelli

#10. If people really gave it full consideration, I mean, like if you could return a baby after thirty days' examination like one of those Time-Life books, then I figure the entire human species would go extinct in a month's time.

Barbara Kingsolver

#11. People forget the good that zoos do. If it weren't for zoos, we would have so many species that would be extinct today.

Betty White

#12. 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.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#13. Buddhism: a violent religion that has compensated for the exploding human population by causing whole species of animal vessels to go extinct.

Bauvard

#14. It was titled "Helping a Species Go Extinct.

Elizabeth Kolbert

#15. Steller's sea cow, named after the German naturalist Georg Steller, who discovered a small community of them living on Bering Island, off the coat of Siberia, in 1741. Hunted mercilessly by humans, within thirty years of its discovery by Steller this remarkable species was extinct.

Bill Bryson

#16. For human beings. We almost went extinct fighting one another before. Now our numbers are even fewer. Our conditions more tenuous. Is this really what we want to do? Kill ourselves off completely? In the hopes that - what? Some decent species will inherit the smoking remains of the earth?" "I

Suzanne Collins

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

Paul Watson

#18. An average of seventy-four species become extinct every day, which was one good reason but not the only one to hold someone's hand ...

Nicole Krauss

#19. 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.'

Louise Leakey

#20. I think we must ask ourselves if this is really what we want to do to God's creation, to drive it to extinction? Because extinction really is irreversible; species that go extinct are lost forever. This is not like Jurassic Park. We can't bring them back.

Stuart L. Pimm

#21. Species went extinct and new ones evolved from protozoa while he sat in his car in the dark and waited to see how badly he'd fucked this up.

Amy Jo Cousins

#22. The eyes of that species of extinct giant, whose bones fill the mounds of America, have gazed on Niagara as our eyes do now.

Abraham Lincoln

#23. The Maoris, New Zealand's first Sapiens colonisers, reached the islands about 800 years ago. Within a couple of centuries, the majority of the local megafauna was extinct, along with 60 per cent of all bird species.

Yuval Noah Harari

#24. Nearly every species that has ever lived has gone extinct, Laurette. No reason to think we humans will be any different!

Anthony Doerr

#25. Every day on this planet some species that doesn't draw the attention of humans goes extinct.

Liu Cixin

#26. It had long been accepted that if a species put mankind on its food-chain menu the species would be extinct before long.

Dan Simmons

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

Kevin Kelly

#28. Maybe you are a poet and a dreamer, but don't you realize that those two species are extinct now?

J.G. Ballard

#29. A grain in the balance will determine which individual shall live and which shall die - which variety or species shall increase in number, and which shall decrease, or finally become extinct.

Charles Darwin

#30. Humanity must work together to stop deforestation. Every minute over 160 acres of land feel the destructive effects of deforestation. Deforestation causes species to become extinct, disrupts natural habitats, and erodes the top soil of viable farming lands causing drought and famine.

Kambiz Mostofizadeh

#31. Is this how it is for a species that senses it is going extinct? Is there a feeling of loneliness, or unease, each morning, upon awakening?

Rick Bass

#32. Let's not be too quick to blame the human race for everything. A great many species of animals became extinct before man ever appeared on earth.

Will Cuppy

#33. Species that struggle to adapt to survive will become extinct

Charles Darwin

#34. Later, I learned that our forgetting of the parakeet had begun even before the species was extinct.

Christopher Cokinos

#35. For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century ... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and plants off the planet every year.

Douglas Adams

#36. I'd ask [God] why he keeps trying to kill us all with disease, pestilence, and natural disasters. I'd ask why 99% of all species there ever were are now extinct
if God works in mysterious ways, that way is mysteriously genocidal.

Neil DeGrasse Tyson

#37. This is the moment when we have to decide: does a world exist outside ourselves and is that world worth fighting for? Another 200 species went extinct today. They were my kin. They were yours, too. If we know them as such, why aren't we fighting to save them with everything we've got?

Lierre Keith

#38. What the fossil record does do is to force us to contemplate our place on the planet. We are but one species of several hominids that inhabited Planet Earth, and like our distant cousins who went extinct fairly recently, our time on Planet Earth is also finite.

Louise Leakey

#39. Ninety-five percent of all the species that have ever existed are now extinct, so don't look so goddamn smug. - GERARD RYDER

Christopher Moore

#40. Over 99 percent of all species that ever lived are now extinct.

Neil Shubin

#41. There's a lot of cruelty going on all the time, and I'm not just talking about inter-human cruelty. I'm talking about whole species becoming extinct, asteroids hitting planets, black holes gobbling up stars.

Barbara Ehrenreich

#42. Global climate change has become entangled with the problem of invasive species. A warmer climate could allow some invaders to spread farther, while causing native organisms to go extinct in their traditional habitats and making room for invaders.

Richard Preston