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Evicted: Poverty and Profit in the American City

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An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

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Dec 02, 2022 10:04PM

“Such is the economy of nature, that no instance can be produced of her having permitted any one race of her animals to become extinct; of her having formed any link in her great work so weak as to be broken.”
― Thomas Jefferson, Notes on the State of Virginia

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“With great trepidation, Buffon allowed that this last species [the American mastodon]- "the largest of them all" - seemed to have disappeared. It was, he proposed, the only land animal ever to have done so. ...

In 1781, Thomas Jefferson was drawn into the controvery.... [He believed] it was still out there somewhere. If it could not be found in Virginia, it was roaming those parts of the continent that "remain in their aboriginal stated, unexplored and undisturbed. When, as president, he dispatched Meriwether Lewis and William Clark to the Northwest, Jefferson hoped that they would come upon live [American mastodon] roaming its forests.”
― Elizabeth Kolbert, The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History

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