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#1

“Why in the morning is there so much hope? And in the evening only fatigued”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

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“The wind from the east over his shoulder carried the tang of drying murram grass and the scents of bitter pungent shrubs, of red earth and brown earth of old scat and stones heating in the midafternoon sun.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

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“These steel monstrosities screamed night and day, blotted out the starlit skies and Northern Lights with flashing red strobes, slaughtered thousands of bats and entire flocks of birds banished tourism and wildlife, made people sick and drove them from their now-valueless homes.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

tags: bats, birds, conservation, day, environment, home, killing-maine, maine, new-england, night, northern-lights, sustainability, tourism, wildlife, wind-turbines

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#4

“The eastern savanna shifted from charcoal to deep purple; to the west a feverish orange moon sank into the Kiambu Hills.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

tags: africa, charcoal, dawn, kiambu-hills, moon, orange, purple, savanna, sunrise, the-last-savanna, west

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“Already this sun was pouring its wrath into the blue Indian ocean where swordfish and marlin cruised like silver-blue attenuated warheads in their green-gold depths...”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

tags: africa, blue, depths, indian-ocean, marlin, oceans, sun, swordfish, the-last-savanna, water

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#6

“Dawn raced like fire across the savanna.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

tags: africa, dawn, fire, nature, savanna

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#7

“...He sat back on his heels and watched the stars one by one cut their way through onrushing darkness, till all was reversed, day was night, and the blackness glittered with all the desert's sands, each a tiny flame beyond the bounds of time.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

tags: africa, black, darkness, day, desert, flames, glitter, night, planetary, sand, sky, solar-system, stars, the-last-savanna, time

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#8

“Long before the stars died the birds began to sing - cool rippling doves, loud cheery starlings, the long lilting trills of warblers and thrushes.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

tags: africa, birds, cool, doves, dusk, loud, nature, savanna, sing, starlings, stars, sunset, the-last-savanna

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#9

“Faraway a leopard barked that high, dissatisfied deep roar it cuts off so sharply, as if its annoyance is too great to express, can only be appeased.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

tags: animals, annoyance, appease, bark, cats, express, leopard, nature, roar, sharp, the-last-savanna, wildlife

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#10

“The breeze across the desert as the light died was so sweet she could almost drink it.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

tags: breeze, desert, died, drink, light, nature, sunset, sweet, the-last-savanna

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#11

“I have spent hours and hours watching elephants, and to come to understand what emotional creatures they are...it's not just a species facing extinction, it's massive individual suffering.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

tags: conservation, creatures, elephants, emotional, extinction, species, suffering, the-last-savanna, wildlife

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#12

“Inside her head or out in the desert was the same, and the air inside her throat was very dry to keep from crying and her neck sore from forcing herself not to look down, not to look back.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

tags: air, crying, desert, dry, inspirational-quotes, look-back, look-down, the-last-savanna, throat

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#13

“But wasn't that progress too, that the elephants were killed off like the mastodon and giant rhino before them, like all other wildlife and wild places? 'We can't stop time,' MacAdam said. 'But you can change the way it goes,' Nehemiah insisted.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

tags: africa, change, conservation, elephants, progress, rhinos, stop-time, the-last-savanna, wild-places, wildlife

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#14

“We sat bathed in luscious darkness, Casco Bay's thousand islands spread out before us like a diamond quilt. 'I don't get enough of this,' she said.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

tags: bay, casco-bay, darkness, diamond, islands, killing-maine, luscious, maine, ocean, quilt, scenery, water

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#15

“Though at opposite ends of our country, Maine and Hawaii are, other than climate, much alike. Places where you say who you are, be who you are, keep your word, and don't cheat or lie to take advantage of each other. Where you protect other folks because they are your tribe.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

tags: advantage, cheat, climate, community, hawaii, individual, lie, maine, mind, neighbor, protect, tribe

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#16

“Water was how the desert would bring everyone together. The antelope's daily prayer, weighing the mortal need of water with the mortal danger of obtaining it.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

tags: afica, animals, antelope, prayer, survival, the-last-savanna, water-hole

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#17

“A camel brayed columns from the rondavels; new sunlight struck the savage earth.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

tags: animals, camel, earth, nature, sunlight, the-last-savanna

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#18

“She was at the same table near the back where three nights ago I'd sat entranced by her songs. And where the two of us had talked like old friends.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

tags: couple, friends, killing-maine, love, nights, relationships, songs, table, two

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#19

“A moment of peace and silence, breathing in and out the frigid air, watching daylight seep into the forest, hearing the first chatter of distant crows, the wind sighing over the snow and through the fir and pine branches and the twittering of chickadees as they flitted in little tribes from tree to tree.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

tags: air, breathing, daylight, forest, frigid, killing-maine, mike-bond, peace, pine, silence, trees, wind, winter

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#20

“...the track of the three camels and three pairs of sandals was like an arrow diminishing into infinity across the wavering sand.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

tags: arrow, camels, mike-bond, sand, sandals, the-last-savanna

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#21

“Wind blew snow crystals back and forth between the graves. The ancient pines creaked overhead.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

tags: ancient, crystals, graves, mountains, pine, snow, wind, winter

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#22

“The immense desert, empty as a bird's wing, inspired him with promise.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

tags: birds, desert, promise, the-last-savanna, wings

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#23

“Then I remembered how she was - fiery, ruthless, smart, and despite herself very caring, not a person who hurts anyone.”
― Mike Bond, Killing Maine

tags: caring, feelings, fiery, hurt, killing-maine, person, ruthless, smart, woman

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#24

“One by one and then together the birds chanted, warbled, whistled, and cooed, like a rare desert plant bursting into life after the rain.”
― Mike Bond, The Last Savanna

tags: africa, birds, chanted, cooed, desert, earth, life, nature, plant, rain, warbled, whistled

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