"Islands are where species go to die."

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Source : "The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions". Book by David Quammen, 1996.

David Quammen

#Islands Quotes #Species Quotes

“Dreams are essential to life.”
“If you are active online or texting, there is a good chance I could look at what you do and know more about you than your family.”
“I don't feel like taking anybody's money.”
“Christmas time, we can remember with deep thanksgiving the amazing Christmas gift of God Himself, when God sent his only begotten Son into the world, that we might live through him.”

Source : Dr. Henry M. Morris, Dr. John D. Morris (1996). “The Modern Creation Trilogy”, p.136, New Leaf Publishing Group
“I did not know much history when I became a bombardier in the U.S. Air Force in World War II. Only after the War did I see that we, like the Nazis, had committed atrocities... Hiroshima, Nagasaki, Dresden, my own bombing missions. And when I studied history after the War, I learned from reading on my own, not from my university classes, about the history of U.S. expansion and imperialism.”
“Men always liked me, because I was very damaged and unpredictable, my children's father claims that I have multiple personalities, but I don't.”

Source : "Kola Boof: Words with the Author of the Best Black Book of 2006". Interviewed with Kam Williams, aalbc.com.
“You want to have a song that people will listen to and go, 'Oh, yeah! That reminds me of something in my life,' or, 'something I'm currently going through,' or maybe something happens later and you hear the song and go, 'Wow! That really was telling a story that I can relate to now.' That's my hope.”

Source : Interview with Maranda Pleasant, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.
“No two countries that both had McDonald's had fought a war against each other since each got its McDonald's”

Source : Thomas L. Friedman (2007). “The World Is Flat 3.0: A Brief History of the Twenty-first Century”, p.586, Macmillan

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