Quotes from Sara Bonnett Stein

If one has lost one's berries, one is likely to lose one's robins too.

I urge you to imagine the interlaced abundance if, throughout suburbia, every stockade fence, every chain-linked boundary, were to be buried in varied greenery and each of them and every hedge transformed into a hedgerow. I ask you, at least, to open the door to some first guest that your party might begin.

a baby forest smothered in its bed.....

The recovery of biodiversity after major extinctions takes several million years. In the interval, the world is inhabited by a list of species more or less equivalent to ragweed and roaches.

It's the flock, the grove, that matters. Our responsibility is to species, not to specimens; to communities, not to individuals.