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- "Agriculture represents the single most profound ecological change in the entire 3.5 billion -year history of life ." --Niles Eldredge , "The Sixth Extinction", 2001
- "Indeed, to develop agriculture is essentially to declare war on ecosystems — converting land to produce one or two food crops , with all other native plant species all now classified as unwanted 'weeds' — and all but a few domesticated species of animals now considered as pests ." ~ Niles Eldredge, "The Sixth Extinction", 2001
- "There is little doubt left in the minds of professional biologists that Earth is currently faced with a mounting loss of species that threatens to rival the five great mass extinctions of the geological past ." ~ Niles Eldredge, "The Sixth Extinction", 2001
- "This explosion of human population , especially in the post-Industrial Revolution years of the past two centuries , coupled with the unequal distribution and consumption of wealth on the planet, is the underlying cause of the Sixth Extinction." ~ Niles Eldredge, "The Sixth Extinction", 2001
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- "By 2050 , [at bio-extinction's current rate,] between 25 per cent and 50 per cent of all species will have disappeared or be too few in numbers to survive. There'll be a few over-visited parks , the coral reefs will be beaten up, grasslands overgrazed. Vast areas of the tropics that have lost their forests will have the same damn weeds, bushes and scrawny eucalyptus trees so that you don't know if you're in Africa or the Americas ." ~ Stuart L. Pimm , "Mass Extinction Not Inevitable", circa 2004
- "The prosperity we have known up to the present is the consequence of rapidly spending the planet's irreplaceable capital." ~ Aldous Huxley
- "Study nature, love nature, stay close to nature. It will never fail you." - Frank Lloyd Wright
