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Natural World
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If the butterflies don’t dance,
the ants don’t march,
and the bees don’t come in a swarm —
that’s it.
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It's just that the animals matter in a way that's hard to define. They matter not only because a particular species will die out if we don't lock its last members away in here, but because they belong to us, to the whole story of this Earth, and without them the story would not be as beautiful or as profound. Anyone who has ever stopped to watch a hummingbird beat its tiny wings to a stillness as it draws the nectar out of a flower with its long, curled tongue will know what I mean. The natural
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― The Island of Last Things
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