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Such is the pain the loss of a single species causes that we’re willing to perform ultrasounds on rhinos and handjobs on crows.
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“The reason this book is being written by a hairy biped, rather than a scaly one, has more to do with dinosaurian misfortune than with any particular mammalian virtue.”
— Aug 05, 2026 02:43PM
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“If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations.”
— Aug 04, 2026 08:39AM