Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes

The anthropologist Richard Leakey has warned that “Homo sapiens might not only be the agent of the sixth extinction, but also risks being one of its victims.” A sign in the Hall of Biodiversity offers a quote from the Stanford ecologist Paul Ehrlich: IN PUSHING OTHER SPECIES TO EXTINCTION, HUMANITY IS BUSY SAWING OFF THE LIMB ON WHICH IT PERCHES.

Elizabeth Kolbert

• Humanity
• Victims
• Extinction
• Anthropologist
• Homo Sapiens

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• With the past, I have nothing to do; nor with the future. I live now.

  

  Ralph Waldo Emerson
  • Life
  • Live
  • Future

• Money is finite; it's limited by a number and what you can buy with it. Power has no limits if you're willing to go far enough in order to get as much of it as you can.

  

  Beau Willimon
  • Money
  • Power
  • Limits

• I try and take the commonplace - and some of it is writ large, like death - take the commonplace and make it universally resonant, revelatory, and beautiful at the same time.

  

  Sally Mann
  • Time
  • Death
  • Beautiful

• Even though I'm Hispanic, I'm so white.

  

  Francia Raisa
  • White
  • Though
  • Hispanic

• He who prays five times a day is in the protection of God, and he who is protected by God cannot be harmed by anyone.

  

  Abu Bakr
  • God
  • Day
  • Protection

• I used to dress like an eight-year-old boy. Traveling has inspired me to be more experimental.

  

  Florence Welch Florence and the Machine
  • Me
  • Boy
  • Inspired

• A new idea is delicate. It can be killed by a sneer or a yawn; it can be stabbed to death by a quip and worried to death by a frown on the right man's brow.

  

  Ovid
  • Death
  • Man
  • New

• If this whole acting thing doesn't work out, I'll just get a talk show.

  

  Rachael Leigh
  • Work
  • Acting
  • Talk

• It takes a while for executives to understand that every company is a spatial company, fundamentally: where are our assets, where are our customers, where are our sales. But when they get it, they light up and say, 'I want to get the geographic advantage.'

  

  Jack Dangermond
  • Up
  • Want
  • Light

• The more we study Art, the less we care for Nature. What Art really reveals to us is Nature's lack of design, her curious crudities, her extraordinary monotony, her absolutely unfinished condition.

  

  Oscar Wilde
  • Art
  • Nature
  • Design

• It is so rare to meet with a man out-doors who cherishes a worthy thought in his mind, which is independent of the labor of his hands.

  

  Henry David Thoreau
  • Mind
  • Independent

• The settlement of America had its origins in the unsettlement of Europe. America came into existence when the European was already so distant from the ancient ideas and ways of his birthplace that the whole span of the Atlantic did not widen the gulf.

  

  Lewis Mumford
  • America

• I think extreme heterosexuality is a perversion.

  

  Margaret Mead

• Value will always be on top of everyone's lists now, right along with safety.

  

  David Neeleman
  • Value
  • Safety

• I always try to have a positive and warm intention that is not about me. It is easy to make everything about yourself. But you take the weight off when we make it about the audience. It's about the joy you can bring to somebody else instead of the joy that you get from doing it.

  

  Annaleigh Ashford
  • Joy
  • Positive

• Life presents you with so many decisions. A lot of times, they're right in front of your face and they're really difficult, but we must make them.

  

  Brittany Murphy
  • Life

• I've grown up surrounded by Americans and to a very large extent feel American. It sounds strange because I seem to be so quintessentially English in everyone's mind - and perhaps I am. Perhaps it's quintessentially English to have a fascination with America.

  

  Colin Firth
  • Up
  • Mind
  • American

• My mission today is to go forth and tell people about why I follow Christ and also what the Bible teaches, and part of that teaching is that women and men are meant to be together. However, I would never treat anyone with disrespect just because they are different from me. We are all created by the Almighty and like Him, I love all of humanity.

  

  Phil Robertson
  • People
  • Men
  • Different

• I grew up with the media circus. My whole life. My parents were very calm about the photographers, the fans, and all that. But I understood right away that I hadn't done anything to deserve that attention. No matter what happens, it will be there. I didn't choose it. You just can't take that too seriously. You need to live your life. And stay calm.

  

  Lily-Rose Depp
  • Life
  • Up
  • Live

• 'Neither refuse to give help when it is needed,' Medwyn continued, 'nor refuse to accept it when it is offered.'

  

  Lloyd Alexander
  • Help

• It's a very low-key approach for low-impact fishing.

  

  J. M. Roberts
  • Approach
  • Fishing
  • Low-impact

• Like the Bible tells us, when a man will lay down his life for a friend, well, then there ain't no greater love in this here world than that.

  

  Bette Greene
  • Life
  • World
  • Love

• The anthropologist Richard Leakey has warned that “Homo sapiens might not only be the agent of the sixth extinction, but also risks being one of its victims.” A sign in the Hall of Biodiversity offers a quote from the Stanford ecologist Paul Ehrlich: IN PUSHING OTHER SPECIES TO EXTINCTION, HUMANITY IS BUSY SAWING OFF THE LIMB ON WHICH IT PERCHES.

  

  Elizabeth Kolbert
  • Humanity
  • Victims
  • Extinction