6 Quotes by David Rains Wallace

Land and water are not really separate things, but they are separate words, and we perceive through words.

Every time we exterminate a predator, we are in a sense creating a new predator.

All things human begin with words.

A flower's structure leads a bee toward having pollen adhere to its body . . . we don't know of any such reason why beautiful places attract humans.

Life is stranger than biology textbooks.

We come into the world as wild things and go out the same way, no matter how many boxes of lead or concrete we sheath about our bones (and the faster we consume the resources that eons of creative wildness have left us, the faster will the wild forces of deterioration pull us down). So it is not enough to look back and admire wildness as our heritage, we must look forward to it as well.