Extinction Quotes

You may not have an extinction. You're just missing a lot of information. - David Jablonski

While there have been other extinction crises, this will be a dramatic alteration that will fundamentally threaten the future of humanity. - Bob Cook

When the game agency estimates there are only 10 adult male lions in the entire Black Hills, a hunt that can kill more than 25 lions is a prescription for extinction. - Lynn Sadler

What I really wanted was to travel and see all the different animals that were on the verge of extinction. - Leonardo DiCaprio

We've made some heroic efforts, but the Earth as a whole is in worse shape today than 30 years ago... There's been 30 more years of greenhouses gases, species extinctions and population growth. - Denis Hayes

We're trying to pull aspen back literally from the brink of extinction. - Wayne Shepperd

We're probably looking at one of the worst spasms of extinction in millions of years, even without climate change. But we have it in our ability to do something about it. - Lee Hannah

We'll finally, maybe, start to see the extinction of wires in the home entertainment network. - John Hull

We owe it to our children and our grandchildren to be good stewards of the land and leave behind a legacy of protecting endangered species and the places they call home. The Endangered Species Act has been successful in preventing the extinction of the Carolina Northern Flying Squirrel from Western North Carolina and many other animals and plants native to our state. - Tracy Davids

We need to find out more about how stripers live. Stripers came close to the brink of extinction 25 years ago. Other species are still in trouble. Rutgers is leading the effort along the Jersey Shore to study our fisheries. I hope Net Free steers clear of nets and won't end up on a dinner table. We have something to learn form Net Free and the other tagged fish. - Jim Saxton