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Elizabeth Kolbert Quotes

born 1961 United States

Elizabeth Kolbert (born July 6, 1961) is an American journalist, author, and visiting fellow at Williams College.

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After a mass extinction, it has generally tended to take many millions of years for life to recover. It's not something that you bounce back from, from one day to the next.

In The World's 'Sixth Extinction,' Are Humans The Asteroid?” interview in NPR (2014)

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Quotes and notes from Wikiquote: Elizabeth Kolbert (page history), available under CC BY-SA 4.0.