Extinction Events

Famous quotes containing the words extinction and/or events:

“The problems of this world are only truly solved in two ways: by extinction or duplication.”
—Susan Sontag (b. 1933)

“Most events recorded in history are more remarkable than important, like eclipses of the sun and moon, by which all are attracted, but whose effects no one takes the trouble to calculate.”
—Henry David Thoreau (1817–1862)