Extinction was a difficult concept for a 10-year-old.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
He who refuses to learn deserves extinction.
Extinction is the rule. Survival is the exception.
Nature should have been pleased to have made this age miserable, without making it also ridiculous.
The physical extinction of the human race is one possibility.
America has faced much more difficult times, including potential national extinction, without flinching.
Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.
I am positive I was not a neglected child. I remember reading 'The Jungle Book' and 'The Sleeping Beauty.'
I accept extinction as best explaining disjoined species. I see that the same cause must have reduced many species of great range to small, and that it may have reduced large genera to so small, and of families.
If my grandchildren were to look at me and say, 'You were aware species were disappearing and you did nothing, you said nothing', that I think is culpable. I don't know how much more they expect me to be doing, I'd better ask them.
One of the most painful things in the Western States and Territories is the extinction of childhood. I have never seen any children - only debased imitations of men and women, cankered by greed and selfishness, and asserting and gaining complete independence of their parents at ten years old.