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"The beauty and genius of a work of art may be reconceived, though its first material expression be destroyed; a vanished harmony may yet again inspire the composer; but when the last individual of a race of living things breathes no more, another heaven and another earth must pass before such a one can be again".
Early 20th century ornithologist and naturalist, Charles "William Beebe", The Bird: Its Form and Function (1906). | ||