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Biological diversity is messy. It walks, it crawls, it swims, it swoops, it buzzes. But extinction is silent, and it has no voice other than our own.

— Paul Hawken

Sentiment: NEGATIVE

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✓Similar Perspectives

I think that this misses out on some of the interesting narrative realities, which is that it actually doesn't work very well, that eliminating diversity is actually a really good way to make a species and its individuals less robust.

— Cory Doctorow

We inhabit a universe that is characterized by diversity.

— Desmond Tutu

Diversity really means becoming complete as human beings - all of us. We learn from each other. If you're missing on that stage, we learn less. We all need to be on that stage.

— Juan Felipe Herrera

You need not fear my extinction. Fear my proliferation! I've already reproduced!

— Lydia Millet

Most evolving lineages, human or otherwise, when threatened with extinction, don't do anything special to avoid it.

— George C. Williams

Most of them are doomed to rapid extinction, but a few may make evolutionary inventions, such as physiological, ecological, or behavioral innovations that give these species improved competitive potential.

— Ernst Mayr

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

— Jacqueline Woodson

We're close to losing our essential diversity. Look at our wheat crops - we rely on a handful of grain crops and plants that we've refined and bred over hundreds of years.

— Paul Watson

✗Opposing Perspectives

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.

— Asa Gray

It's a fair guess that at the rate we're destroying habitat, especially but not exclusively in the tropics, we're pushing to extinction about one species every hour. That doesn't count the species whose populations are being reduced so greatly that diversity within the population is essentially gone.

— Donella Meadows