Extinction Quotes

We know that our bull trout use the upper portion of the watershed. It's critical habitat, and the higher these proposals reach into those headwaters, the greater the impact on a fish that's already on the brink of extinction. - Clint Muhlfeld

We hope to prevent the devastating effects of this disease by treating the young early. While peregrines have made a comeback from the brink of extinction nationwide, there is still a need to protect their nest sites and encourage population growth in Georgia. - Jim Ozier

We have repeatedly warned that some of the world's oldest and smallest indigenous groups are at high risk not only of displacement, but even of extinction because of the Colombian conflict. All indigenous communities have close links to their ancestral land, on which their cultural survival depends. - William Spindler

We believe we've already seen regional extinctions of corals--in other words, a shrinking of the area where corals can now survive in Florida and elsewhere--as a result of nutrient inputs through various forms of pollution. - Brian Lapointe

We are facing an extinction crisis. - Anne Larigauderie

War was return of earth to ugly earth, War was foundering of sublimities, Extinction of each happy art and faith By which the world had still kept head in air, Protesting logic or protesting love, Until the unendurable moment struck - The inward scre. - Robert Graves

Voice Over Internet Protocol has become a media and technology favorite, portrayed as the service that sends local and long distance carriers into extinction. - Bill Hardekopf

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. - Jean Dubuffet

To make sure that we are needed, focusing on relevant activities that really do show a payoff, so that you are not vulnerable to extinction. - Danny Davis