"I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological……" — Jonathan Franzen
"I've moved away from that sort of deep-ecological extremism. I started to think: what can we do for wild birds right now? I don't want these particular species to disappear."
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131 Quotes by Jonathan Franzen
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It is a matter of shame that in the morning the birds should be awake earlier than you.
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