Extinction Quotes
Sobering lines on what it means for something to disappear.
This extinction quotes collection begins with the haunting fact that half the world's languages are teetering on the brink of extinction, a quiet, ongoing loss of human Being and culture.
It's haunting to realize that half of the languages of the world are teetering on the brink of extinction.
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Many troubled Midwestern towns are grasping for ways to fend off decline and, in some cases, extinction.
Allocating Quotes
Land bridges were everywhere during the extinction, many species were spreading, and there were many diseases.
Shouldn't the cascades of extinction and rapid planetary warming register in our literature?
The threat of extinction is more real than many realise. And the damage done to elephants directly leads to destruction of the ecosystem.
American Quotes
The choice, however, is as clear now for nations as it was once for the individual: peace or extinction.
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.
Twelve years ago, when I was on the Pine Ridge Reservation for 'Thunderheart,' I was dong research into Native American horses that had come into extinction. I was tracing certain Lakota bloodlines, and it became an obsession.
Unless one says goodbye to what one loves, and unless one travels to completely new territories, one can expect merely a long wearing away of oneself and an eventual extinction.
Being Quotes
Preventing ongoing extinction of elephants, rhinoceroses, and other threatened species is critically important. By all means, we must set priorities for allocating finite conservation resources.
Hundreds of species are facing extinction due to human impacts on the environment.
It's a fair guess that at the rate we're destroying habitat, especially but not exclusively in the tropics, we're pushing to extinction about one species every hour. That doesn't count the species whose populations are being reduced so greatly that...
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.
Bridges Quotes
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.
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It also considers extinction on a larger, species-wide scale, and recalls how one community's history includes being pushed to the brink of extinction elsewhere in the region.
