Extinction Quotes

“Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.”

“Hence the same instant which killed the animals froze the country where they lived. This event was sudden, instantaneous, without any gradual development.”

“When the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again.”

“It is a curious feature of our existence that we come from a planet that is very good at promoting life but even better at extinguishing it.”

“The dinosaurs disappeared because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!”

“A language dies when nobody speaks it anymore.”

“The mammoth was a kind of elephant that lived in the Ice Age. It had long, shaggy hair and curved tusks. It is now extinct. This is a pity.”

“The appearance of the bones of quadrupeds, especially those of complete skeletons, testifies to the existence of a world previous to ours, and destroyed by some kind of catastrophe.”

“Unless we stop the degradation of our planet, the human race will be gone.”

“Amidst the vicissitudes of the earth's surface, species cannot be immortal, but must perish, one after another, like the individuals which compose them.”

“The dinosaurs became extinct because they didn't have a space program. And if we become extinct because we don't have a space program, it'll serve us right!”