"In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches."

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Source : Elizabeth Kolbert (2014). “The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History”, p.268, A&C Black

Elizabeth Kolbert

#Humanity Quotes #Extinction Quotes #Pushing Quotes

“It is not how much we have, but how much we enjoy, that makes happiness.”
“When I sit near the ocean in the morning and write my verses and breathe the salty wind which is coming from the water, I rejoice in God and I am blissful, as I was as a child.”
“I am annoyed by individuals who are embarrassed by pauses in a conversation. To me, every conversational pause refreshes.”
“If I lived in L.A., I'd be schizophrenic after a week.”

Source : Biography/Personal Quotes, www.imdb.com.
“Tilda Swinton is a great example of a person who completely disappears into a role.”
“... if, as women, we accept a philosophy of history that asserts that women are by definition assimilated into the male universal,that we can understand our past through a male lens--if we are unaware that women even have a history--we live our lives similarly unanchored, drifting in response to a veering wind of myth and bias.”
“I was probably the best that ever walked this earth. And I could take a punch. I could deliver a punch. I didn't have the hardest punch in the world but my punches were sharp and they were crisp. And if you took too many of them, you would be knocked out.”
“Well, do you know what I hope for, once I allow myself to begin to hope? [...] That you find in your love for people something not only to work for, but to comfort and restore you when there is a need.”

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