Dinornis

“The military spends just as much on space telescopes as NASA does, but theirs are pointing down.”
― Erik Asphaug, When the Earth Had Two Moons: Cannibal Planets, Icy Giants, Dirty Comets, Dreadful Orbits, and the Origins of the Night Sky

“Life, properly regarded, is only a journey toward death”
― James Romm, Dying Every Day: Seneca at the Court of Nero

“There is a time in life when you expect the world to be always full of new things. And then comes a day when you realise that is not how it will be at all. You see that life will become a thing made of holes. Absences. Losses. Things that were there and are no longer. And you realise, too, that you have to grow around and between the gaps, [...]”
― Helen Macdonald, H is for Hawk

“A piece of bad news wrapped in a protein coat.”
― Nick Lane