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“I really prize and love great painting. It's so out of date now. It's slightly come back in.”

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John Lithgow, born in October 1945 in New York, USA, is an accomplished actor renowned for his exceptional performances in theater, film, and television. He has received numerous awards, including Tony Awards and Emmy Awards. more

“Even very smart people can try to shoehorn new information that just doesn't fit into an existing paradigm.For a long time the story that we've been telling ourselves is that humans are just another animal. We evolved from other animals and our place in the universe isn't particularly special. What I'm trying to convey in my book [The Sixth Extinction] is that we are unusual.”

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Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet.”

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Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“The Earth is big. There are huge natural forces that have worked over geological time. But it turns out, when you look carefully at the geological time, you can't find anything like us.”

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Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“We can't say that when x happens we get a mass extinction. To the extent we understand mass extinction, one has been caused by glaciation event, one has been caused by a massive climate change, and one has been caused by an asteroid. These events turn out to have no precedent.”

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Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“If you're a conservation biologist in many fields, you're seeing your study subject disappear. People are in the position where they're chronicling radical decline, and that is not a position that conservation biologists want to be in.”

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Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“There's this idea of shifting baselines. It was coined by a guy named Jeremy Jackson. It's the idea that every generation takes what it sees, and says, "Okay, well, that's the norm."”

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Author:Elizabeth Kolbert

“I think as soon as I figured out - and this must have been incredibly young - that comic books were made by humans, rather than being natural phenomenon likes trees or rocks, I just wanted to be one of the people who did that. So I was copying all kinds of cartoons that I was reading, comic books, and eventually learned how to draw cartoon books step-by-step and just, I don't know, I'm not an especially quick learner, but I sure was a dedicated one.”

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