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Evolution discloses a meaning in death, although the meaning is like some of the berries that Darwin tasted in the Galapagos, "acid & Austere." There is a special providence in the fall of a sparrow. Even Drought bears fruit. Even death is a seed.

Jonathan Weiner

For all species, including our own, the true figure of life is a perching bird, a passerine, alert and nervous in every part, ready to dart off in an instant. Life is always poised for flight. From a distance it looks still, silhouetted against the bright sky or the dark ground; but up close it is flitting this way and that, as if displaying to the world at every moment its perpetual readiness to take off in any of a thousand directions.

Jonathan Weiner

We are doing what the dinosaurs did before us, only faster. We bring strangers together to make strange bedfellows, and we remake the beds they lie in, all at once.

Jonathan Weiner

As an instrument of planetary home repair, it is hard to imagine anything as safe as a tree.

Jonathan Weiner

It is amazing that chemicals measured in parts per million, billion, trillion, should matter to a planet. Yet, together with carbon dioxide, all these trace gases will shape Earth's next one hundred years and beyond. We are turning up the planet's thermostat a little more each year, committing the planet to a higher and higher temperature.

Jonathan Weiner

Jonathan Weiner

Jonathan Weiner

Born: November 26, 1953 (age 72)

Bio: Jonathan Weiner is a Pulitzer Prize-winning writer of non-fiction books on his biology observations, in particular evolution in the Galápagos Islands, genetics, and the environment.

Known for:

Time, Love, Memory (1999)
His Brother's Keeper (2004)
Nadia's hands (1999)
Dead, Insane, Or in Jail: A CEDU Memoir (2015)

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