Don Young Quotes

Every species becomes extinct; at some point, we will go extinct. The question is, as Homo sapiens, are we going to be able to adapt to the change that we're actually part of? We're causing such dramatic changes to the planet, so yes, you do stop and think, 'I wonder where we're headed.'

Very few species have survived unchanged. There's one called lingula, which is a little shellfish, a little brachiopod about the size of my fingernail, that has survived for 500 million years, but it's survived by being unobtrusive and doing nothing, and you can't accuse human beings of that.

In the game of life, less diversity means fewer options for change. Wild or domesticated, panda or pea, adaptation is the requirement for survival.

Life is a force in its own right. It is a new element. And it has altered the Earth. It covers Earth like a skin.

When I see how fast technology is advancing, my mind thinks of evolution and how organisms also have to evolve or adapt in order to, in their case, survive.

Spencer's god was Evolution, sometimes also called Progress.

If every human being disappeared off the face of the earth in an instant, the earth would still keep spinning and the planet would develop new life forms.

For much of history it was possible to believe that the great diversity of life on Earth was a fixed creation, that the living world had never changed. But when the first stirrings of industry demanded that fuel be dug from the earth and hillsides be leveled for roads and railways, the Earth's true past was dug up in abundance.

Life on our planet has been a constant series of cataclysmic events, and we are more suitable for extinction than a trilobite or a reptile. So we will vanish. There's no doubt in my heart.

Men are weak now, and yet they transform the Earth's surface. In millions of years, their might will increase to the extent that they will change the surface of the Earth, its oceans, the atmosphere, and themselves.

Adapt or perish, now as ever, is nature's inexorable imperative.

All life forms obey Nature's demands—except man, who has found ways of ignoring them.

Our conservation laws are based on static ideas about nature—not landscapes that are rapidly changing because of something humans did.

We have spent our entire existence adapting.

Everything happens the way it's supposed to because it's just like cavemen - you evolve and grow and learn.

It's like the animal kingdom. Adapt or go extinct.

Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.

Those who refused to respond to the new stimulus would perish. Adapt or perish.

If you do not change, you can become extinct !

Evolution loves death more than it loves you or me. This is easy to write, easy to read, and hard to believe.

As some species die out, forms better adapted to utilize the obstacles against which they struggled in vain come into being.

IF you don't change, you can become extinct!

People are still very uncomfortable with the idea that humans are not specially created species. I believe we are a fantastic species. But we are not created specially. That's very hard for people to accept in their day-to-day routine.

Climate change is not the fault of man. It's Mother Nature's way. And sucking greenhouse gases from the atmosphere is too limited a solution. We have to be prepared for fire or ice, for fry or freeze. We have to be prepared for change.

People have to evolve.