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“Three hundred types of mussel, a third of the worlds total, live in the Smokies. Smokies mussels have terrific names, like purple wartyback, shiny pigtoe, and monkeyface pearlymussel. Unfortunately...”
“I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.”
“We're so self-important. So arrogant. Everybody's going to save something now. Save the trees, save the bees, save the whales, save the snails. And the supreme arrogance? Save the planet! Are these...”
“We are not sure whether the world ever physically comes to extinction. It may or it may not. But, the moment a person dies everything comes to extinction for him. His world is devastated.I believe ...”
“Dont believe what you hear about those penguins. A species of lazy waddlers. Their extinction is immanent.”
“Is this how it is for a species that senses it is going extinct? Is there a feeling of loneliness, or unease, each morning, upon awakening?”
“It is a rule in paleontology that ornamentation and complication precede extinction. And our mutation, of which the assembly line, the collective farm, the mechanized army, and the mass production ...”
“Your shield must surpass your weaponry.”
“To return to nature is to embrace extinction.”
“I shall not assess arguments and evidence for competing views about when human extinction will occur. We know it will occur, and this fact has a curious effect on my argument. In a strange way it m...”
“There are problems humans cannot solve, to wit: density dependent birth rates, loss of genetic diversity, the overturning of his population pyramid, traveling to the nearest star, and the extinctio...”
“We are the last generation of humans on Earth!”
“The moment we stop caring for one another regardless of race..is the moment we lose our humanity.”
“Don’t believe what you hear about those penguins. A species of lazy waddlers. Their extinction is immanent.”
“Three hundred types of mussel, a third of the world’s total, live in the Smokies. Smokies mussels have terrific names, like purple wartyback, shiny pigtoe, and monkeyface pearlymussel. Unfortunatel...”
