“The rarer they derive,the fewer meanings animals can have. Eventually rarity is all they are made of. The condor is an icon of extinction. There’s little else to it now but being the final of its kind. And in this lies the diminution of the world. How can you love something, how can you fight to protect it, and whether all it means is loss?” - Helen Macdonald,H is for Hawk
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