Species Quotes
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As the snail's world grew more familiar, my own human world became less so; my species was so large, so rushed, and so confusing.
Elisabeth Tova Bailey -
A single-continent world would be expected to contain only about a third as many mammalian species as currently exist.
Elizabeth Kolbert
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While illness keeps me always aware of my mortality, I realize that what matters most is not that I survive, nor even that my species survives, but that life itself continues to evolve. As the Holocene mass extinction rushes on, which species will be left? And what new creatures will evolve that we cannot now imagine - for what creature could ever have imagined us?
Elisabeth Tova Bailey