claireviolet 's review for:

The Song of the Dodo: Island Biogeography in an Age of Extinctions by David Quammen

5.0

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“The song of the dodo, if it had one, is forever unknowable because no human from whom we have testimony ever took the trouble to sit in the Mauritian forest and listen.”

every time i think of this quote i cry. by far the most powerful book i read for my undergrad wildlife coursework.