Mike Bond Books & Quotes

“She was at the same table near the back where three nights ago I'd sat entranced by her songs. And where the two of us had talked like old friends.”

Love Two Relationships Friends Couple Songs Nights Table Killing Maine

Book:Killing Maine

Source: Killing Maine

“A moment of peace and silence, breathing in and out the frigid air, watching daylight seep into the forest, hearing the first chatter of distant crows, the wind sighing over the snow and through the fir and pine branches and the twittering of chickadees as they flitted in little tribes from tree to tree.”

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Book:Killing Maine

Source: Killing Maine

“These steel monstrosities screamed night and day, blotted out the starlit skies and Northern Lights with flashing red strobes, slaughtered thousands of bats and entire flocks of birds banished tourism and wildlife, made people sick and drove them from their now-valueless homes.”

Home Night Environment Sustainability Bats Conservation Day Wildlife Birds Tourism New England Maine Northern Lights Wind Turbines Killing Maine

Book:Killing Maine

Source: Killing Maine

“The breeze across the desert as the light died was so sweet she could almost drink it.”

Light Nature Sweet Drink Died Desert Sunset Breeze The Last Savanna

Book:The Last Savanna

Source: The Last Savanna

“Already this sun was pouring its wrath into the blue Indian ocean where swordfish and marlin cruised like silver-blue attenuated warheads in their green-gold depths...”

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Book:The Last Savanna

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“A camel brayed columns from the rondavels; new sunlight struck the savage earth.”

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Book:The Last Savanna

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“Faraway a leopard barked that high, dissatisfied deep roar it cuts off so sharply, as if its annoyance is too great to express, can only be appeased.”

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Book:The Last Savanna

Source: The Last Savanna

“I have spent hours and hours watching elephants, and to come to understand what emotional creatures they are...it's not just a species facing extinction, it's massive individual suffering.”

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Book:The Last Savanna

Source: The Last Savanna

“But wasn't that progress too, that the elephants were killed off like the mastodon and giant rhino before them, like all other wildlife and wild places? 'We can't stop time,' MacAdam said. 'But you can change the way it goes,' Nehemiah insisted.”

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Book:The Last Savanna

Source: The Last Savanna

“Inside her head or out in the desert was the same, and the air inside her throat was very dry to keep from crying and her neck sore from forcing herself not to look down, not to look back.”

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Book:The Last Savanna

Source: The Last Savanna

“One by one and then together the birds chanted, warbled, whistled, and cooed, like a rare desert plant bursting into life after the rain.”

Life Earth Nature Rain Plant Desert Africa Birds Chanted Whistled Cooed Warbled

Book:The Last Savanna

Source: The Last Savanna

“...the track of the three camels and three pairs of sandals was like an arrow diminishing into infinity across the wavering sand.”

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Book:The Last Savanna

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“Water was how the desert would bring everyone together. The antelope's daily prayer, weighing the mortal need of water with the mortal danger of obtaining it.”

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Book:The Last Savanna

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“Dawn raced like fire across the savanna.”

Nature Fire Dawn Africa Savanna

Book:The Last Savanna

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“The eastern savanna shifted from charcoal to deep purple; to the west a feverish orange moon sank into the Kiambu Hills.”

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Book:The Last Savanna

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“The immense desert, empty as a bird's wing, inspired him with promise.”

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“The darting orange flames in the stone fireplace told how the sun went into a tree and the tree made fire, but where had these round gray hearthstones come from, and who had collected them so long ago and built this fireplace?”

Fire Reflection Transformation Introspective Quiet Moments Fireplace Hearth Hearthstone Forgotten Past Bedridden

Book:America

Source: America

“Then I remembered how she was - fiery, ruthless, smart, and despite herself very caring, not a person who hurts anyone.”

Feelings Hurt Smart Caring Woman Person Ruthless Fiery Killing Maine

Book:Killing Maine

Source: Killing Maine

“Long before the stars died the birds began to sing - cool rippling doves, loud cheery starlings, the long lilting trills of warblers and thrushes.”

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Book:The Last Savanna

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“We sat bathed in luscious darkness, Casco Bay's thousand islands spread out before us like a diamond quilt. 'I don't get enough of this,' she said.”

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Book:Killing Maine

Source: Killing Maine

“...He sat back on his heels and watched the stars one by one cut their way through onrushing darkness, till all was reversed, day was night, and the blackness glittered with all the desert's sands, each a tiny flame beyond the bounds of time.”

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Mike Bond Books

The Last Savanna

Killing Maine

America

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