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• It began in mystery, and it will end in mystery, but what a savage and beautiful country lies in between.
• I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I lived just the length of it. I…
• I consider fiction a very high-class form of lying. I enjoy and admire it enormously, but I don't think I'm very good…
• For better or worse, zoos are how most people come to know big or exotic animals. Few will ever see wild penguins…
• The further we distance ourselves from the spell of the present, explored by our senses, the harder it will be to understand…
• I don't want to be a passenger in my own life.
• Nothing is more memorable than a smell. One scent can be unexpected, momentary and fleeting, yet conjure up a childhood summer beside…
• As a species, we've somehow survived large and small ice ages, genetic bottlenecks, plagues, world wars and all manner of natural disasters,…

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