Able Quote by Gabriel Garcia Marquez

Earth has few secrets from the birds.

— William Beebe

Birds were like dinosaurs' better selves. They had short lives and long summers. We all should be so lucky as to leave behind such…

— Jonathan Franzen

As long as the hummingbird had not abandoned the land, somewhere there were still flowers, and they could all go on.

— Leslie Marmon Silko

But without humans, the wild would take over. It would only take a hundred years or so for nature to win again.

— Lucy Christopher

“Birds were what became of dinosaurs. Those mountains of flesh whose petrified bones were on display at the Museum of Natural History had done…

— Jonathan Franzen

Birds were flying from continent to continent long before we were. They reached the coldest place on Earth, Antarctica, long before we did. They…

— David Attenborough

Moreover, it thus follows that not a great deal of time was needed for the large animals of the three major parts of the…

— Georges Cuvier

“One of the great challenges in reconstructing a mass extinction is making sense of what happened when. In the same way we have divided…

— Bill Nye

History repeats itself in the large because human nature changes with geological leisureliness.

— Will Durant

There are landscapes and species that are not going to be here a hundred years from now, fifty years from now. One gift we…

— Alison Hawthorne Deming

Humans have made a huge hole in nature in the last 10,000 years. [With de-extinction,] we have the ability now, and maybe the moral…

— Anonymous

“Then there was the gray of human habitation. The blue places were turning brown, the yellow places to dust, the green places to smoke…

— Lydia Millet