Kolbert, Elizabeth -- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, ch. 9 “Islands on Dry Land” (2014)

Dave — Tue, 01 Aug 2023 19:24:26 +0000

One of the defining features of the Anthropocene is that the world is changing in ways that compel species to move, and another is that it’s changing in ways that create barriers — roads, clear-cuts, cities — that prevent them from doing so.

Elizabeth Kolbert (b. 1961) American journalist and author
The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, ch. 9 “Islands on Dry Land” (2014)
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Stowe, Harriet Beecher -- Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (1854)

Dave — Wed, 12 Feb 2014 14:25:41 +0000

A man builds a house in England with the expectation of living in it and leaving it to his children; while we shed our houses in America as easily as a snail does his shell. We live a while in Boston, and then a while in New York, and then, perhaps, turn up at Cincinnati. Scarcely any body with us is living where they expect to live and die. The man that dies in the house he was born in is a wonder. There is something pleasant in the permanence and repose of the English family estate, which we, in America, know very little of.

Harriet Beecher Stowe (1811–1896) American author
Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (1854)

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Kolbert, Elizabeth -- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History, ch. 9 “Islands on Dry Land” (2014)

Stowe, Harriet Beecher -- Sunny Memories of Foreign Lands (1854)