“…I wanted to write about extinction, it’s folly to knowingly let a life form go. Every life form is a success story. Every life form holds and carries all these wise decisions within it. The point is not to let them go, but to learn from them and admire them and to keep them going … for the wonderful contributions they make to living on earth.” –Phillip Hoose in an interview on the Green Space blog for the Philidelphia Inquirer on his book,  Moonbird

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