Dana

“Those books which lie closest to our hearts are precisely the books we should give away, so that they may bring others happiness.”
― Carsten Henn, The Door-to-Door Bookstore

“If the shrike did not eat the grasshoppers, then the grasshoppers would eat all the grass, and there would be none left for the deer...and the deer are food for the tiger. Life in the jungle is a giant spiderweb; if you touch one strand, it will vibrate at the other end. We cannot separate nature into good and bad, Rita. The gods do not will it so.”
― Eric Dinerstein, What Elephants Know

“Wesley was always outraged when he woke himself up with a screech in his sleep, and he blamed me. He would whip around to face me with an intense librarian’s stare as if I had broken a cardinal rule.”
― Stacey O'Brien, Wesley the Owl: The Remarkable Love Story of an Owl and His Girl

“Ours is the species that best understands the world, yet has the worst relationship with it.”
― Carl Safina, Beyond Words: What Elephants and Whales Think and Feel