Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes
Top 83 wise famous quotes and sayings by Elizabeth Kolbert
Elizabeth Kolbert Famous Quotes & Sayings
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There are a lot of things that we could do to minimize what we're doing, but we're not getting back those frogs that I saw that no longer exist.
Assuming that humans continue to burn fossil fuels, the oceans will continue to absorb carbon dioxide and will become increasingly acidified.
According to Lamarck, there was a force - the 'power of life' - that pushed organisms to become increasingly complex.
It doesn't much matter whether people care or don't care. What matters is that people change the world.
The 'incredible frog hotel' - really a local bed and breakfast - ... the frogs stay (in their tanks) in a block of rented rooms.
stored inside of them, in frigid clouds of nitrogen, are cell lines representing nearly a thousand species.
Some of these species that are now no longer with us were killed off by a fungal disease that was moved around the planet by people.
If there's been epidemic extinction and ecospace opens up, rats may be best placed to take advantage of that.
[On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.
Recent estimates suggest there are at least two million tropical insect species and perhaps as many as seven million.
Most of us live in parts of the world where we don't expect to see much, and we wouldn't necessarily notice things that are crashing.
No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet.
The current extinction has its own novel cause: not an asteroid or a massive volcanic eruption but one weedy species.
(Female African clawed frogs, when injected with the urine of a pregnant woman, lay eggs within a few hours.)
Another expert, David Jablonski, characterizes mass extinctions as "substantial biodiversity losses" that occur rapidly and are "global in extent.
A single-continent world would be expected to contain only about a third as many mammalian species as currently exist.
Increasingly developing countries are asking for aid to help deal with the consequences of climate change, which we don't want to give.
Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.
Parents want their kids' approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents' approval.
T. Rex and the Crater of Doom, shows an angry-looking tyrannosaurus reacting with horror to the impact.)
Neanderthals were pretty smart, and if we actively killed them off, then probably we did so in the same way that humans kill each other.
In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.