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fish species, as they become scarce, mature younger and become smaller animals.
Mark Kurlansky • Salt: A World History
“To sin by silence, when we should protest, makes cowards out of men*,” the poet Ella Wheeler Wilcox wrote in her 1914 anthem against silence — a line Rachel Carson leaned on in summoning her epoch-making courage to speak inconvenient truth to power as she awakened the modern environmental conscience.
Mary Shelley on the Courage to Speak Up Against Injustice and the Power of Words in Revising the World
The sharks disappeared as each wave rolled toward me; then a new wave would swell above the horizon, containing in it, like scorpions in amber, sharks that roiled and heaved. The sight held awesome wonders: power and beauty, grace tangled in a rapture with violence.
Annie Dillard • Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (pdf).pdf
excreted by coral, which is one of the largest repositories of carbon dioxide on earth
Peter Wohlleben • The Hidden Life of Trees: The International Bestseller
