“It’s easy to think that as a result of the extinction of the dodo, we are now sadder and wiser, but there’s a lot of evidence to suggest that we are merely sadder and better informed.” Life LessonsExtinctionDodo Book:Last Chance To See Source: Last Chance To See
“September smiled at her wonderful friends in all their colors and bright eyes and gentle ways. “You know, in Fairyland-Above they said that the underworld was full of devils and dragons. But it isn’t so at all! Folk are just folk, wherever you go, and it’s only a nasty sort of person who thinks a body’s a devil just because they come from another country and have different notions.” SeptemberHalloweenShadowsCrowsFairylandWyvernDodoGlashtynMarid Author:Catherynne M. Valente
“... he relived the day he had been ushered into a London house to see an exotic 'great fowle' -- nothing less than a live dodo, one of the very last to be seen in Europe.” History Of EnglandDodoSir Hamon L Estrange Book:The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown Source: The Restless Republic: Britain Without a Crown
“The church, which squatted among the headstones like a wet mother dodo, had been at various times Presbyterian, Congregationalist, Unitarian, and Universally Apocalyptic. It was now the Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.” GodChurchApocalypticUnitarianPresbyterianDodoCongregationalistUtterly Indifferent Book:The Sirens of Titan Source: The Sirens of Titan