Quote of the day
War is not its own end, except in some catastrophic slide into absolute damnation. It's peace that's wanted. Some better peace than the one you started with.
Elizabeth Kolbert

Born: 1961 (age 64)
Bio: Elizabeth Kolbert is an American journalist and author and professor at Williams College. She is best known for her 2006 book Field Notes from a Catastrophe, and as an observer and commentator on environmentalism for The New Yorker magazine.
Known for:
- The Sixth Extinction: An Unnatural History (2014)
- Field Notes from a Catastrophe (2006)
- The Prophet of Love (2004)