(46 quotes found)
“He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.”
Rabbi Hillel
“The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for.”
Will Cuppy
“In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness.”
Samuel Beckett
“Large mammals that have been hunted to near extinction elsewhere were here in abundance. We were able to simply pick up two long-beaked echidnas, a primitive egg-laying mammal that is little known.”
Bruce Beehler
“In many cases, captive colonies will be our only short-term way of avoiding extinction.”
Claude Gascon
“We're trying to pull aspen back literally from the brink of extinction.”
Wayne Shepperd
“This is an exciting year ... witnessing a population on the brink of extinction exhibit signs that it might actually make it, that it might have a fighting chance.”
Chris Slay
“Expanded fire suppression efforts may be the only way to save these species from extinction, ... The good news is that fire suppression should also benefit nearby human residents.”
David Hogan
“Bird flu could drive the slender-billed curlew to extinction -- there are very few specimens left and the virus could just be enough to push it over the edge.”
Ward Hagemeijer
“You may not have an extinction. You're just missing a lot of information.”
David Jablonski
