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“Earth is abundant with plentiful resources. Our practice of rationing resources through monetary control is no longer relevant and is counter-productive to our survival.”

Earth Practice Survival Resources Productive Relevant Monetary Plentiful

Author:Jacque Fresco

“In particular, for younger researchers on whom the future of mankind may depend. We believe that they are working with all the scientific wisdom at their disposal for the preservation of the inheritance of the earth and for the lasting survival of mankind.”

Believe May Earth Mankind Particular Depends Survival Lasting Preservation Inheritance Researchers Future Of Mankind

Author:Kenichi Fukui

“If we do not speak for Earth, who will? If we are not committed to our own survival, who will be?”

Ifs Earth Speak Survival Committed

Book:Cosmos

Source: Cosmos

“I say that humans are the only ones in this world that need everything within it. but there is nothing in the world that needs us for its survival. We aren't the masters of the earth. We're the servants.”

World Needs Humans Earth This World Masters Survival Servant

Author:Joseph Boyden

“Cursed in earth and subdued by death, man found himself beset by time, and his instincts put to the test. Only then, he realized that with love he could survive, and that for a certain purpose he would toil. For those whom my love can not immune from death, are dedicated these paintings, in the hope they may express in drawing the reality of a resonant mind.”

Men Mind May Reality Earth Purpose Certain Found Painting Survival Tests Instinct Drawing Dedicated Can Not Toil Immune Cursed

Author:Ala Bashir

“Adaptation to one's environment makes for a sort of survival; but after all, the supreme victory is only won by those who prove themselves of so much hardier stuff than the rest that no power on earth is able to destroy them. The people who have really made history are the martyrs.”

People Made Able Earth Stuff Environment Victory Prove Survival Supreme Adaptation Martyr

Author:Aleister Crowley

“Life on earth is hard. Competition for the necessities of life is fierce. How ridiculous to believe that the law of harsh survival would not be true elsewhere, or that it would be negated by the progress of technology in an advanced civilization.”

Believe Hard Would Be Earth Law Life Is Technology Progress Civilization Survival Competition Ridiculous Being True Elsewhere Fierce Harsh Advanced Civilization

Book:The Forge of God

Source: The Forge of God

“There are millions of different species of animals and plants on earth--possibly as many as forty million. But somewhere between five and fifty BILLION species have existed at one time or another. Thus, only about one in a thousand species is still alive--a truly lousy survival record: 99.9 percent failure!”

Stills Different Earth Animal Millions Records Five Alive Thousand Survival Percent Plant Species Billions Fifty Forty One Time

Author:David M. Raup

“Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the light of this, it is sometimes joked that all of life today amounts to little more than a rounding error.”

Littles Sometimes Light Running Today Earth Environment Amount Survival Errors Species Billions Nine Fifty Cents Ninety Ninety Nine

Author:Elizabeth Kolbert