“In what seems like a fantastic coincidence, but is probably no coincidence at all, the history of these events is recovered just as people come to realize that they are causing another one.”

“Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's not clear that he ever really did.”

“Ocean Acidification is sometimes referred to as Global Warming's Equally Evil Twin. The irony is intentional and fair enough as far as it goes... No single mechanism explains all the mass extinctio...”

“According to Lamarck, there was a forcethe power of lifethat pushed organisms to become increasingly complex.”

“His interest, after all, was not in the origin of species but in their demise.”

“Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apartthe mutations that make us the sort of creature that could wipe out its nearest relative, then dig up ...”

“Amphibians—the word comes from the Greek meaning ‘double life.”

“Learning how not to do things is as hard as learning how to do them. Harder, maybe. There'd be a sight more frogs in this world if I didn't know how not to turn people into them. And big pink ballo...”

“My girl, always hated frogs, Jackie stated when shed controlled her hilarity.Thats right, Mom, Feb leveled her irate eyes at her mother, Im a girl therefore I hate frogs. Id get kicked out of the g...”

“My girl, always hated frogs,” Jackie stated when she’d controlled her hilarity.“That’s right, Mom,” Feb leveled her irate eyes at her mother, “I’m a girl therefore I hate frogs. I’d get kicked out ...”

“All words are pegs to hang ideas on.”

“A word is not the same with one writer as it is with another. One tears it from his guts. The other pulls it out of his overcoat pocket.”

“No doubt I shall go on writing, stumbling across tundras of unmeaning, planting words like bloody flags in my wake....”