#extinct

A shell in the pit," said I, "if the worst comes to worst will kill them all." The intense excitement of the events had no doubt left my perceptive powers in a state of erethism. I remember that dinner table with extraordinary vividness even now. My dear wife's sweet anxious face peering at me from under the pink lampshade, the white cloth with it silver and glass table furniture—for in those days even philosophical writers had luxuries—the crimson-purple wine in my glass, are photographically distinct. At the end of it I sat, tempering nuts with a cigarette, regretting Ogilvy's rashness, and denouncing the shortsighted timidity of the Martians. So some respectable dodo in the Mauritius might have lorded it in his nest, and discussed the arrival of that shipful of pitiless sailors in want of animal food. "We will peck them to death tomorrow, my dear. ↗

— H.G. Wells

#dodos #extinction #foreshadowing #overconfidence #shortsightedness

It was reasonable to struggle, to suffer, perhaps even to die, for a more just, a more compassionate society, but not in a world with no future where, all to soon, the very words "justice," "compassion," "society," "struggle," "evil," would be unheard echoes on an empty air. ↗

— P.D. James

#extinction #world #men

One of the maxims of the new field of conservation biological control is that to control insect herbivores, you must maintain populations of insect herbivores. ↗

— Douglas Tallamy

#conservation #diversity #endangered #extinction #gardening

America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching. ↗

— Nick Clooney

#difficult #difficult times #extinction #faced #flinching

Once again, stock markets have been threatened with extinction for almost 75 years, and I have found that stock markets are harder to kill than roaches. ↗

— Arthur Levitt

#almost #been #extinction #found #harder

It's a matter of life and death for this country. The Kenyan forests are facing extinction and it is a man-made problem. ↗

— Wangari Maathai

#death #extinction #facing #forests #life

And I have lived since - as you have - in a period of cold war, during which we have ensured by our achievements in the science and technology of destruction that a third act in this tragedy of war will result in the peace of extinction. ↗

— Lester B. Pearson

#act #cold #cold war #destruction #during

Remember my mantra: distinct... or extinct. ↗

— Tom Peters

#extinct #mantra #remember

Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same. ↗

— Ronald Reagan

#bloodstream #children #extinction #fought #freedom

The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication. ↗

— Susan Sontag

#extinction #only #problems #solved #truly