Jonathan Weiner Quotes

#1. Cactus finches do more with cactus than Plains Indians did with buffalo. They nest in cactus; they sleep in cactus; they often copulate in cactus; they drink cactus nectar; they eat cactus flowers, cactus pollen, and cactus seeds. In return they pollinate the cactus, like bees.

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#2. It's almost as if each instant is our last and first. We are always dying, and always reborn. And that is living.

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#3. Nature is perverse & will not do as I wish it.

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#4. Darwin argues, essentially, that all the sophistications we see in the eagle's or the human's eye could have arisen gradually, by stages, across geological spans of time, each stage conferring somewhat clearer vision than the one before.

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#5. Some men by unalterable frame of their constitution are stout, others timorous, some confident, others modest and tractable.

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#6. As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree.

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#7. To know your organism, you must eat it.' Not just the flies: the pupae. And not just to horrify people, but to know.

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