Natural History Quotes

A lifetime can be spent in a Magellanic voyage around the trunk of a single tree.

Edward O. Wilson

Catch on fire with enthusiasm, and people will come for miles to watch you burn

There was a time—until very recently in the scheme of things—when there were no wild animals, because every animal was wild; and humans were few. Animals, and animal presence over us and around us. Over every horizon, animals. Their skins clothing our skins, their fats in our lamps, their bladders to carry water, meat when we could get it.