Carbon: The Book of Life

“The unraveling of our home planet is a mental disorder in which thoughs and feelings are so impaired they have no relationship to external reality. Wild is the opposite. It is when our thoughts, feelings, and actions are exquisitely sensity to our relationship with the living world and each other.”

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“In New York City, more than 700 languages are spoken...There are more languages per square mile in Queens than anyplace in the world.”

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“US trucks and automobiles kill more than one million vertebrates daily.”

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“...more than 90 percent of birds feed upon them (moths).”

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“We have a cognitive bias, dismissing plants and trees as inferior to other life-forms.”

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“Forests capture the most carbon dioxide on land, and existing mature, primary forests are responsible for the great majority...Protecting existing forests would have far more impact between now and 2100 than newly planted forests.”

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“There are 2.5 million ants for each human being, and the dominant, no-questions-asked majority are female.”

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“Atomism is the belief that the world can be understood by studying its most minuscule particles, cells or atoms.”

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“Tallgrass prairies that covered one third of the United States are reduced to less than 4 percent of their range. The shifting baseline syndrome means people see gradual changes only over their lifetime. Unless it is a recent event no one sees a missing wetland. The Earth we inhabit is accepted as normal because we lack a historical perspective.”

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“The unraveling of our home planet is a mental disorder in which thoughts and feelings are so impaired they have no relationship to external reality. Wild is the opposite. It is when our thoughts, feelings, and actions are exquisitely sensitive to our relationship with the living world and each other.”

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“We have reduced carbon to an errant element, the culprit in a civilization bent on self-termination...Carbon is a window into the entirety of life, with all its beauty, secrets, and complexity.”

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“French chemist Joseph Fourier calculated that the Earth was warmer than it should be given the heat hitting the planet. In 1824, he theorized that gases in the atmosphere must trap heat. In 1837, he predicted that overall levels of warming could change depending on human behavior and activity.”

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“Clark's Nutcrackers remember where they buried thousands of pine nuts in up to ten thousand caches within a fifteen-mile range.”

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