Maggie McCormick’s Reviews > The Once and Future World: Nature As It Was, As It Is, As It Could Be > Status Update

“The way you see the world around you determines the kind of world you are willing to live with. If you’re aware that whales once swam in your local waters, then you can ask yourself whether they might belong in those straits and bays once again. If you're unaware of the animals past presence, then their absence will seem perfectly natural, and the question of whales in the future simply will not occur to you.”

I genuinely have to read this book in isolation because it’s making me cry my eyes out🥲 partially because of the tragedy of what we’ve lost but mostly because of the beauty that remains despite everything