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" The grizzly bears that live in and around Yellowstone make up almost half the population in the lower 48 states, and now those bears are at risk. "

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" I worry about the very pernicious way we elevate and separate ourselves from other beasts, the way we rationalize our comfort and ease, our worship of the self, as healthy. It's enticing, but with a terrible taint of evil. "

" Do we seek delicate phraseology in politics or other forms of public life? We do not. "

" We paint a slow picture. You can see the brushstrokes. We don't get to the point, and sometimes when we do, our readers don't notice, in fact. It's so couched in nuance, it can fly right over a person's head. 'What was that you said? I couldn't quite make it out.' "

" Names and other proper nouns shouldn't distract from the language. "

" People who are obsessed amuse me. "

" I came to understand that a German nudist, in 1984, loved little more than to work on his or her tan. "

" What makes 'The Lorax' such a powerful fable is partly its shamelessness. It pulls no punches; it wears its teacher heart on its sleeve. "

" Pugs are creatures of habit. "

" My motto is, if you love something, don't set it free. No matter how hard it struggles. That would be stupid. "

" When I was 16, I went to Berlin - West Berlin, since at that time a wall still divided the city - to live for three months with a family on an exchange program. "

" African elephants have long been thought of as a single species, but a critical mass of genetic studies now proves there are two. "

" After numerous generations of people dedicated to killing wolves on the North American continent, one generation devoted itself to letting wolves live. "

" I've seen a few wild grizzly bears, mostly in Alaska and British Columbia, and always from a distance. But each grizzly I've caught sight of was as fearsome and sublime as the last. You never get used to their raw power and massive bodies, or the mysterious intelligence in their dark, close-set eyes. "

" In December 2011, a wild gray wolf set foot in California, the first sighting in almost a century. He'd wandered in from Oregon, looking for a mate. "

" I've always been interested in obsessive, insane people. "

" In Nagasaki, American planes did drop warning leaflets - but not till Aug. 10, a day after the city was bombed. "

" I wanted to write about this tropical honeymoon in part because I had the most drastically terrible honeymoon. "

" Most of my books have something to do with L.A. "

" I've always wondered: is there really any access to the White House? "

" It's a friendly act to write a lighthearted book. "

" I like to amuse myself. "

" Both climate change and extinction are results of our tyranny over the nonhuman world and our domination of, and exploitation of, whole categories of each other - and those, in turn, are clearly linked to agriculture, the cattle-industrial complex, capitalism. "

" The summer after I got divorced, my children asked to sleep in my bed again. It would be the first time we'd shared a bed since they were infants. "

" If you're doing creative work, that work should never feel trivial - even if what you're doing is for hire or lightly intended. Even the mundane doesn't have to be trivial. "

" You need not fear my extinction. Fear my proliferation! I've already reproduced! "

" Wyoming, home to Yellowstone National Park and the Grand Tetons, is also the country's largest coal producer and one of its largest gas drillers. Two-thirds of the state's gas-drilling rigs are on public lands in the increasingly industrialized Greater Green River Basin. "

" I think that young readers have very strong stomachs. "

" Without elephants, Africa's landscape would be unrecognizable, yet these animals have fallen by the hundreds of thousands as a result of two enormous waves of poaching in this century - one in the 1970s and 1980s, the other, beginning around 2009, now underway. "

" I'm for any woman who loves sloths. "

" I wanted to go into the tropics and save animals - and write, of course. "