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> [“In other words, in the encroaching malaise of 1910, it was easy to be gripped by the brilliance of the hippopotamus scheme, to feel hippopotamuses resonating not just as a way of sidestepping catastrophic famine, but as a symbol of…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mooallem/in-other-words-in-the-encroaching-malaise-of-1910-it-was-easy-to-be/)

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## More by Jon Mooallem

> [“The kids ignored the cranes, and the cranes ignored the kids, George remembered, and that struck him as the best humanity could realistically hope…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mooallem/the-kids-ignored-the-cranes-and-the-cranes-ignored-the-kids-george/)

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> [“I was relieved not to find yet another crabby and wounded ex-environmentalist, and I asked her how she was managing to live in a…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mooallem/i-was-relieved-not-to-find-yet-another-crabby-and-wounded-ex/)

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> [“I'm not arguing that America would be a better or more beautiful place if it had imported hippopotamuses in 1910. But there is something…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mooallem/i-m-not-arguing-that-america-would-be-a-better-or-more-beautiful/)

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> [“You're not what you were before," Jana told me, "but neither are you what you're going to be. The soup stage really sucks, but…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mooallem/you-re-not-what-you-were-before-jana-told-me-but-neither-are-you-what/)

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> [“In other words, in the encroaching malaise of 1910, it was easy to be gripped by the brilliance of the hippopotamus scheme, to feel…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mooallem/in-other-words-in-the-encroaching-malaise-of-1910-it-was-easy-to-be/)

[Jon Mooallem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-mooallem/)

> [“Zoom out and what you see is one species--us--struggling to keep all others in their appropriate places, or at least in the places we've…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mooallem/zoom-out-and-what-you-see-is-one-species-us-struggling-to-keep-all/)

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> [“Representative Broussard had dispatched a field agent on a fact-finding mission. The man, a native of southern Africa, found the Louisiana swamps “wildly dismal…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mooallem/representative-broussard-had-dispatched-a-field-agent-on-a-fact/)

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> [ “This animal, homely as a steam-roller, \[is\] the embodiment of salvation,” it wrote. “Peace, plenty, and contentment lie before us; and a new life,… ](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mooallem/this-animal-homely-as-a-steam-roller-is-the-embodiment-of-salvation/)

[Jon Mooallem](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/author/jon-mooallem/)

> [“Importing antelopes and giraffes suddenly became politically impossible. The experience had left Burnham angry—mostly at himself. He’d been naive enough to believe that America…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mooallem/importing-antelopes-and-giraffes-suddenly-became-politically/)

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> [“The phenomenon that Powell stumbled onto has a name: shifting baselines syndrome... Every generation of scientist accepts the oceans as it inherits them... when…](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/jon-mooallem/the-phenomenon-that-powell-stumbled-onto-has-a-name-shifting/)

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