{"quotes":[{"text":"Your shield must surpass your weaponry.","author":"Toba Beta","tags":["extinction","shield","survival","war","weapon","win"],"id":2219,"author_id":"Toba+Beta"},{"text":"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 of food are evidences or even symptoms, might well correspond to the thickening armor of the great reptiles—a tendency that can end only in extinction. If this should happen to be true, nothing stemming from thought can interfere with it or bend it. Conscious thought seems to have little effect on the action or direction of our species.","author":"John Steinbeck","tags":["extinction","farming","human-development","production","thought","war"],"id":2530,"author_id":"John+Steinbeck"},{"text":"The addition of certain chemicals to the atmosphere will destroy wavelengths of light and it may only be a matter of time before one of these wavelengths of light that is critical for human survival is eliminated. This is called: The Extinction Wavelength.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["addition","atmosphere","certain","chemicals","critical","destroy","eliminated","extinction","human","light","matter","spectrum","survival","time","wavelength","wavelengths"],"id":5072,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"So while this is a book about fighting back, in the end this is a book about love. The songbirds and the salmon need your heart, no matter how weary, because even a broken heart is still made of love. They need your heart because they are disappearing, slipping into that longest night of extinction, and the resistance is nowhere in sight. We will have to build that resistance from whatever comes to hand: whispers and prayers, history and dreams, from our bravest words and braver actions. It will be hard, there will be a cost, and in too many implacable dawns it will seem impossible. But we will have to do it anyway. So gather your heart and join with every living being. With love as our First Cause, how can we fail?","author":"Derrick Jensen","tags":["anti-civ","bravery","climate-change","deep-green-resistance","extinction","love","resistance"],"id":7315,"author_id":"Derrick+Jensen"},{"text":"I don't know what happened. Disease? War? Social collapse? Or was it just us? The Dead replacing the Living? I guess it's not so important. Once you've arrived at the end of the world, it hardly matters which route you took.","author":"Isaac Marion","tags":["civilization","collapse","dead","death","disease","end","ending","extinction","important","life","living","plague","ponder","question","rotten","war","wonder","world"],"id":12889,"author_id":"Isaac+Marion"},{"text":"I think now that maybe true sweetness can only happen in limbo.","author":"Peter Heller","tags":["extinction","fleeting-thoughts","happiness"],"id":30533,"author_id":"Peter+Heller"},{"text":"Long after the traces of the human animal have disappeared, many of the species it is bent on destroying will still be around, along with others that have yet to spring up.The Earth will forget mankind. The play of life will go on.","author":"John N. Gray","tags":["animal","extinction","humans","the-coast-opposite-of-humanity","unsaved"],"id":36377,"author_id":"John+N.+Gray"},{"text":"Freedom of religion is not enough; we need the extinction of it, because no one has turned to be a religious by their own choice.","author":"M.F. Moonzajer","tags":["choice","enough","extinction","freedom","religion","religious"],"id":37260,"author_id":"M.F.+Moonzajer"},{"text":"Any species that devours its natural environment will eventually fall victim to the resulting silence and I call the toxicity of silence: Extinction Silence.","author":"Steven Magee","tags":["devour","devoured","devours","environment","environmental","environmental-conservation","environmental-degradation","environmental-protection","environmental-values","environmentalism","extinction","natural","natural-disasters","natural-law","natural-selection","natural-world","naturalism","silence","silence","silenced","species","species-relations","victim","victims"],"id":45352,"author_id":"Steven+Magee"},{"text":"I will murder you by the billions to give you immortality. I will set fire to your civilization to light your way forward. But know this: My species is not defined by your dying, but by your living.","author":"Daniel H. Wilson","tags":["apocalypse","extinction","robot"],"id":47017,"author_id":"Daniel+H.+Wilson"}],"pagination":{"page":1,"page_size":10,"total":82,"pages":9,"next":"?page=2\u0026page_size=10"}}