46 Quotes by Charlotte McConaghy

It has been decided by our leaders that economic growth is more important. That the extinction crisis is an acceptable trade for their greed.

I think it’s civilization makes us violent. We infect each other.

We’re the only planet that has oceans. In all the known universe, we’re the only one sitting in the perfect spot for them, not too hot and not too cold, and it’s the only reason we’re alive, because it’s the ocean that creates the oxygen we need to breathe.

If you truly think wolves are the blood spillers, then you’re blind... We do that. We are the people killers, the children killers. We’re the monsters.

I don’t know how to force the world into a shape I can manage.

How lonely it will be here, when it’s just us.

The world he describes, empty of wild creatures and places, overrun instead by people and their agriculture, is a dying world.

All creatures know love, Dad used to say. All creatures.

Then again, it’s a fool who tries to protect a creature from its own instincts.