Belinda Jonak

“...bonded thru coupling- Humans could get crazy over it. How else could you explain a sapient species that had overpopulated itself to the point of environmental collapse? This was a people that had coupled themselves stupid.”
― Becky Chambers

“...wherever humans are, there's a massive disruption of the ecosystem...like a raft in the ocean- a concentration point where things are happening, and these are the points where life aggregates.”
― Martin Wikelski, The Internet of Animals: Discovering the Collective Intelligence of Life on Earth

“Life...is not a simple thread which is only extended in length, it is a large web or rather a network, from interval to interval, casts branches to the side in order to unite with networks of other order.”
― Jason Roberts, Every Living Thing: The Great and Deadly Race to Know All Life

“What we use to construct the past is...a hodgepodge of fleeting glimpses...a construct of what stands in the light and what I imagine in the dark where I cannot see.”
― William Kent Krueger, Ordinary Grace