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“Cycling along U.S. 93 was to experience a highway from the outside, the wrong side, to feel the wind and the kicked-up gravel and the impossible mass of a logging truck chewing up a straightaway, to understand the vulnerability of a soft and living body in a world made for machines. It was to feel a lot like prey.”

“Australia’s [wildlife] carers [] became celebrities [for their roles in caring for animals in large wildfires…] The accolades seemed both overdue and beside the point. Rain eventually quenched the fires, but roadkill never rests. Carers were heroic not merely because they responded valiantly to a finite disaster, but because they rose daily to confront a crisis they knew would never end.”