"Every plant is an individual.Wrong again. We are not individuals at all, we are all connected. We are individuals the way each blossom on an apple tree is an individual."

"There is something subversive about this garden of Serena's, a sense of buried things bursting upwards, wordlessly, into the light, as if to point, to say: Whatever is silenced will clamor to be heard, though silently."

"As the people of Shishmaref lose their natural hunting grounds to the warming sea, they are forced to buy U.S. Canned goods from the only local store on the island; however, this is not their natural diet and cannot sustain them throughout the year."

"Extinction, the irrevocable loss of a species, causes pain that can never find relief. It is an ache that will pass from generation to generation for the rest of human history."