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"Chronicling the passage of whales has led me to an understanding that we, as a species, now sand at a crossroads. We can face the possibility of our own extinction and work to avert it, or we can flow..."

"The zoologists who came from Germany to inseminate the elephantwore bicycle helmets and protective rubber suits.So as not to be soiled by effluvium and excrement,which will alchemize to produce laught..."

"Perhaps if zoologists would contemplate the wide variations presented by many plants of indubitably one and the same species, and the still wider diversities of long cultivated races from an original ..."

"A multitude of harlequin lifeforms bobbed and twirled and played in the depths of the Atlantic. Pink cucumbers with thorny backs. Algae. Starfish. Annelids with simple brains and a hundred toes. Spong..."

"The obsession with putting ourselves at the centre of everything is the bane not only of theologians but also of zoologists."

"There are 2,500 kinds of sponges, all of them consist largely of holes."

"Whales are silly once every two years. The young are called short-heads or baby blimps. Many whale romances begin in Baffin's bay and end in Procter and Gamble's factory, Staten Island."

"Infant wart hogs resemble both sides of the family."

"Places of confinement providing free food and medical care are called prisons."

"The zoologist is delighted by the differences between animals, whereas the physiologist would like all animals to work in fundamentally the same way."