Extinction Quotes

People are suffering, people are dying, entire ecosystems are collapsing. We are in the beginning of a mass extinction and all you can talk about is money and fairytales of eternal economic growth.

– Greta Thunberg

At UN climate action summit, New York, 23 September 2019.

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.

– Carl Sagan

Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches.

– Arthur Levitt

Extinction was a difficult concept for a 10-year-old.

– Nell Newman

Shouldn’t the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature?

– Lydia Millet

He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.

– Rabbi Hillel

Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.

– Robert T. Bakker

Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.

– Stephen Kinzer

It’s haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.

– Wade Davis

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