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In the next 25 years, the human race will have to decide whether or not to preserve the bestiary of Nature’s living masterpieces. Ashes and Snow is not meant to tell people to do some things and not to do other things. It’s meant to inspire. I hope it’s not a requiem.

— Gregory Colbert

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The whales do not sing because they have an answer. They sing because they have a song.

Ashes and Snow : A Novel in Letters (2005)

We need to renegotiate our contract with nature. Ecology is a unifying force that can diminish intolerance and expand our empathy towards others—both human and animal.

I have invented nothing. I have simply documented a magical alchemy that I want to share.

If you look at Paleolithic cave paintings, you see how people were depicted inside nature, not outside it. It was a kind of dream time. That’s what I’m exploring.

The stars you see at night are the unblinking eyes of sleeping elephants, who sleep with one eye open to best keep watch over us.

Ashes and Snow : A Novel in Letters (2005)

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