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Very few works of art, however skillfully crafted, can approach the splendor of a living bird.

— Pete Dunne The Feather Quest: A North American Birder's Year (1992)

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Hope is many things, but it throws itself against fact and shatters.

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Zero impact in a fragile land. The only ethic that should be tolerated in the Arctic.

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