The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2019 Quotes

“With each generation, the amount of environmental degradation increases, but each generation takes that amount as the norm.”
― Sy Montgomery, The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2019: A National Bestseller—Essential Stories of Truth, Beauty, and Discovery

“In 1820, two years before the Catholic Church began permitting the teaching of heliocentrism,”
― Sy Montgomery, The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2019: A National Bestseller—Essential Stories of Truth, Beauty, and Discovery

“There is a word, sad and resonant, for the last member of a dying species. The word is endling.”
― Sy Montgomery, The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2019: A National Bestseller—Essential Stories of Truth, Beauty, and Discovery

“In the Devonian the moon was 10,000 miles closer, and summoned surging tides that flung fish onto tidal flats, daring them to walk.”
― Sy Montgomery, The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2019: A National Bestseller—Essential Stories of Truth, Beauty, and Discovery

“It was one of almost 20 global mass extinctions in the history of complex life, a list that includes 5 cataclysmic outliers, when the planet nearly died,”
― Sy Montgomery, The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2019: A National Bestseller—Essential Stories of Truth, Beauty, and Discovery

“A study published this year in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences found that if you look at the world’s mammals by weight, 96 percent of that biomass is humans and livestock; just 4 percent is wild animals.”
― Sy Montgomery, The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2019: A National Bestseller—Essential Stories of Truth, Beauty, and Discovery