Quotes by : Elizabeth Kolbert

The 'incredible frog hotel'—really a local bed and breakfast—...the frogs stay (in their tanks) in....

Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the....

In what seems like a fantastic coincidence, but is probably no coincidence at all, the history of these....

Ocean Acidification is sometimes referred to as Global Warming's Equally Evil Twin. The irony is intentional....

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it's....

According to Lamarck, there was a force—the ‘power of life’—that pushed organisms to become increasingly....

Amphibians—the word comes from the Greek meaning ‘double life.

Right now, in the amazing moment that to us counts as the present, we are deciding, without quite meaning....

Trees are obviously a lot less mobile than, say, trogons—tropical birds common in Manú—or even ticks.....

His interest, after all, was not in the origin of species but in their demise.

Of the many species that have existed on earth--estimates run as high as fifty billion--more than ninety-nine....