Molly

“The ecosystem itself is not just a landscape full of plant and animal species; it’s an intricate network of relationships, including those between predators and their prey, between flowering plants and their pollinators, between fruiting plants and the animals that disperse their seeds. Each such relationship constitutes a link between trophic levels.”
― David Quammen, The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

“The term refers to cascading disruptions that can pass between trophic levels—that is, between different categories of interrelated organisms in the hierarchy of energy transfer within an ecosystem.”
― David Quammen, The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions

“To my hens, I'm a two-legged giant who throws them corn and keeps stealing their eggs.”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks

“Like the best songs, you can't see the next line coming, but once it's sung, how else could it have gone?”
― David Mitchell, The Bone Clocks