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Elizabeth Kolbert Quote: “Wilson has observed, “We are not as gods. We’re not yet sentient or intelligent enough to be much of anything.” Paul Kingsnorth, a British writer and activist, has put it this way: “we are as gods, but we have failed to get good at it... We are Loki, killing the beautiful for fun. We are Saturn, devouring our children... Sometimes doing nothing is better than doing something.”

101. “Wilson has observed, “We are not as gods. We’re not yet sentient or intelligent enough to be much of anything.” Paul Kingsnorth, a British writer and activist, has put it this way: “we are as gods, but we have failed to get good at it... We are Loki, killing the beautiful for fun. We are Saturn, devouring our children... Sometimes doing nothing is better than doing something.”

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Elizabeth Kolbert Quote: “Modern humans arrived in Europe around forty thousand years ago, and again and again, the archaeological record shows, as soon as they made their way to a region where Neanderthals were living, the Neanderthals in that region disappeared.”

102. “Modern humans arrived in Europe around forty thousand years ago, and again and again, the archaeological record shows, as soon as they made their way to a region where Neanderthals were living, the Neanderthals in that region disappeared.”

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Elizabeth Kolbert Quote: “When the world changes faster than species can adapt, many fall out. This is the case whether the agent drops from the sky in a fiery streak or drives to work in a Honda.”

103. “When the world changes faster than species can adapt, many fall out. This is the case whether the agent drops from the sky in a fiery streak or drives to work in a Honda.”

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Elizabeth Kolbert Quote: “Occasionally, a truck rumbled by, loaded down with logs. The butterflies couldn’t scatter fast enough, so the road was littered with severed wings.”

104. “Occasionally, a truck rumbled by, loaded down with logs. The butterflies couldn’t scatter fast enough, so the road was littered with severed wings.”

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Elizabeth Kolbert Quote: “Creep, clobber, squawk. Repeat.”

105. “Creep, clobber, squawk. Repeat.”

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Elizabeth Kolbert Quote: “If control is the problem, then, by the logic of the Anthropocene, still more control must be the solution.”

106. “If control is the problem, then, by the logic of the Anthropocene, still more control must be the solution.”

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Elizabeth Kolbert Quote: “It demonstrates, he has written, that humans “are capable of driving virtually any large mammal species extinct, even though they are also capable of going to great lengths to guarantee that they do not.”

107. “It demonstrates, he has written, that humans “are capable of driving virtually any large mammal species extinct, even though they are also capable of going to great lengths to guarantee that they do not.”

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Elizabeth Kolbert Quote: “Wouldn’t it be better, practically and ethically, to focus on what can be done and is being done to save species, rather than to speculate gloomily about a future in which the biosphere is reduced to little plastic vials?”

108. “Wouldn’t it be better, practically and ethically, to focus on what can be done and is being done to save species, rather than to speculate gloomily about a future in which the biosphere is reduced to little plastic vials?”

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Elizabeth Kolbert Quote: “Time and time again, people have demonstrated that they care about what Rachel Carson called “the problem of sharing our earth with other creatures,” and that they’re willing to make sacrifices on those creatures’ behalf.”

109. “Time and time again, people have demonstrated that they care about what Rachel Carson called “the problem of sharing our earth with other creatures,” and that they’re willing to make sacrifices on those creatures’ behalf.”

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