"The single raindrop never feels responsible for the flood."
"For millions of years, on average, one species became extinct every century.... We are now heaving more than a thousand different species of animals and plants off the planet every year."
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Source: Douglas Adams, Mark Carwardine (2013). “Last Chance To See”, p.275, Random House
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