Johan Eklöf > Quotes

“Carpe noctem.”
― Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life

“Moths have the animal world’s most exceptional sense of smell and can capture separate scent molecules with their antennae.”
― Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life

“No one knows exactly how many insect species there are in the world. It’s a question of millions and new ones are constantly being discovered. In Sweden and Norway alone, one-thousand-six-hundred completely new species of insect have been identified in the last decade. In the tropics, every insect eventually leads to new discoveries and many species presumably die out before we even have time to meet them.”
― Johan Eklöf

“Moths have shown themselves to be at least as important pollinators as the diurnal bees and they even visit more kinds of flowers than bees do.”
― Johan Eklöf, The Darkness Manifesto: On Light Pollution, Night Ecology, and the Ancient Rhythms that Sustain Life