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“But first he enjoyed the immediate pleasure of smelling a secret garden in his urine that had been purified by lukewarm asparagus.”
― Gabriel García Márquez, Love in the Time of Cholera

“One way to make sense of the biodiversity crisis would simply be to accept it. The history of life has, after all, been punctuated by extinction events, both big and very big. The impact that brought an end to the Cretaceous wiped out something like seventy-five percent of all species on earth. No one wept for them, and eventually, new species evolved to take their place. But for whatever reason--call it biophilia, call it care for God's creation, call it heart stopping fear--people are reluctant to be the asteroid.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, Under a White Sky: The Nature of the Future

“Birds are not difficult to understand. Their behaviour tells me what they are thinking. Generally it runs along the lines of: Is this food? Is this? What about this? This might be food. I am almost certain that this is. Or occasionally: It is raining. I do not like it.”
― Susanna Clarke, Piranesi

“when the government fines corporations, rather than sending executives to jail, it amounts to “expensive licenses for criminal misconduct.”
― Patrick Radden Keefe, Empire of Pain: The Secret History of the Sackler Dynasty