#extinct

They are all beasts of burden in a sense, ' Thoreau once remarked of animals, 'made to carry some portion of our thoughts.' Animals are the old language of the imagination; one of the ten thousand tragedies of their disappearance would be a silencing of this speech. ↗

— Rebecca Solnit

#extinction #nature #page- #imagination

That last day does not bring extinction to us, but change of place. ↗

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

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All the trends show that email usage among the younger cohorts of Internet users is declining. Whether it will take five or 30 years for email to go extinct, I'm not sure. ↗

— Andrew Mason

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It is peoples' fantasies of what is true that is so extraordinary. That that we were born and that we face eternal extinction after death is an extraordinary fantasy. ↗

— Brian Perkins

#born #death #eternal #extinction #extraordinary

In the landscape of extinction, precision is next to godliness. ↗

— Samuel Beckett

#godliness #landscape #next #precision

Species go extinct because there are historical contraints built into a given body or a given design. ↗

— Kevin Kelly

#body #built #design #extinct #given

Extinction catches Man by surprise because no one can even imagine that such a catastrophe can happen to an intelligent species. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#extinction #gaede #god #physics #imagination

There are plenty of problems in the world, many of them interconnected. But there is no problem which compares with this central, universal problem of saving the human race from extinction. ↗

— John Foster Dulles

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The death of democracy is not likely to be an assassination from ambush. It will be a slow extinction from apathy, indifference, and undernourishment. ↗

— Robert M. Hutchins

#assassination #death #democracy #extinction #indifference

No matter what we call it, poison is still poison, death is still death, and industrial civilization is still causing the greatest mass extinction in the history of the planet. ↗

— Derrick Jensen

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