#extinct

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

#completely #eventual #expect #extinction #goodbye

Experience as well as common sense indicated that the most reliable method of avoiding self-extinction was not to equip oneself with the means to accomplish it in the first place. ↗

— Iain Banks

#experience

Don’t believe what you hear about those penguins. A species of lazy waddlers. Their extinction is immanent. ↗

— Benson Bruno

#funny #penguins #funny

Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be around, along with others that have yet to spring up. The Earth will forget mankind. The play of life will go on. ↗

— John Gray

#extinction #humans #the-coast-opposite-of-humanity #unsaved #life

If man doesn't learn to treat the oceans and the rain forest with respect, man will become extinct. ↗

— Peter Benchley

#extinct #forest #learn #man #oceans

The work that lasts over time is the work which still speaks to us when all contemporary interest in that work is extinct. ↗

— Jeanette Winterson

#extinct #interest #lasts #over #speaks

I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families. ↗

— Asa Gray

#best #cause #explaining #extinction #families

The struggle for existence holds as much in the intellectual as in the physical world. A theory is a species of thinking, and its right to exist is coextensive with its power of resisting extinction by its rivals. ↗

— Thomas Huxley

#existence #extinction #holds #intellectual #much

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

— Marcus Tullius Cicero

#change #day #does #extinction #last

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