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In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.

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People tend to focus on the here and now. The problem is that, once global warming is something that most people can…
It may seem impossible to imagine that a technologically advanced society could choose, in essence, to destroy itself, but that is what…
It is estimated that one-third of all reef-building corals, a third of all fresh-water mollusks, a third of sharks and rays, a…
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches.
Zalasiewicz is convinced that even a moderately competent stratigrapher will, at the distance of a hundred million years or so, be able…
Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the…
Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear…
What's the use of having developed a science well enough to make predictions if, in the end, all we're willing to do…
In a poll commissioned by Time and CNN, two-thirds of American parents said they think that their children are spoiled.
Letting things slide is always the easiest thing to do, in parenting no less than in banking, public education, and environmental protection.…
Parents want their kids’ approval, a reversal of the past ideal of children striving for their parents’ approval.
It doesn’t much matter whether people care or don’t care. What matters is that people change the world.

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Opportunity is a bird that never perches. — Claude Maxwell MacDonald
In pushing other species to extinction, humanity is busy sawing off the limb on which it perches. — Elizabeth Kolbert
Mr. Jamrach led me through the lobby and into the menagerie. The first was a parrot room, a fearsome screaming place of… — Carol Birch
Mama used to tell us a story about a cicada sitting high in a tree. It chirps and drinks in dew, oblivious… — Lisa See
We are the lucky generation. We first broke our earthly bonds and ventured into space. From our descendants- perches on other planets… — Walter Cronkite
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul - and sings the tunes without the words - and never… — Emily Dickinson
I think public intellectuals have a responsibility - to be self-critical on the one hand, to do serious, nuanced work rigorously executed;… — Michael Eric Dyson
A mockingbird has moved into our neighborhood. It perches atop a telephone pole behind our backyard. Every morning it is the first… — Jerry Spinelli
Hope is the thing with feathers That perches in the soul, And sings the tune without the words, And never stops at… — Emily Dickinson
I'm already waiting when Puck gets to the top of the cliffs. I'm not the only one; about two dozen race tourists… — Maggie Stiefvater
When Emily Dickinson writes, “Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul,” she reminds us, as the birds do,… — Terry Tempest Williams
Hope is the thing with feathers that perches in the soul. — Emily Dickinson

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