#extinct

Doctors, dressed up in one professional costume or another, have been in busy practice since the earliest records of every culture on earth. It is hard to think of a more dependable or enduring occupation, harder still to imagine any future events leading to its extinction. ↗

— Lewis Thomas

#any #been #busy #costume #culture

I don't have space to enter into the examples or the history of this, so I'm left with having to make the bold statement that culture is extinct. ↗

— Vivienne Westwood

#culture #enter #examples #extinct #having

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

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

The damage that climate change is causing and that will get worse if we fail to act goes beyond the hundreds of thousands of lives, homes and businesses lost, ecosystems destroyed, species driven to extinction, infrastructure smashed and people inconvenienced. ↗

— David Suzuki

#beyond #businesses #causing #change #climate