#extinct

The Dodo never had a chance. He seems to have been invented for the sole purpose of becoming extinct and that was all he was good for. ↗

— Will Cuppy

#been #chance #extinct #good #had

Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception. ↗

— Carl Sagan

#extinction #science #survival #experience

Today, the rich are the haves and the poor are the have-nots. Tomorrow, the rich will be the have-food and the poor will be the have-not food. ↗

— Bill Gaede

#end-of-man #extinction #globalization #last-generation #mass-extinction

I gradually realized that I was seeing another example of creative ebb, another step by another art on the road that may indeed end in extinction. ↗

— Stephen King

#extinction #writer-s-block #writing #writing-process #art

This isn't about keeping mountains looking pretty. Ending mountaintop removal is about keeping humanity alive. ↗

— Rivera Sun

#climate-change #earth #ecology #extinction #mountains

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it. ↗

— George C. Williams

#avoid #evolving #extinction #human #most

The thing that fascinates me is that the way I came to film and television is extinct. Then there were gatekeepers, it was prohibitively expensive to make a film, to be a director you had to be an entrepreneur to raise money. ↗

— Tom Hooper

#director #entrepreneur #expensive #extinct #fascinates

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

Hatred is a feeling which leads to the extinction of values. ↗

— Jose Ortega y Gasset

#feeling #hatred #leads #values #which