When you drive to the grocery store, your intention is not to change the world, it just happens to have that impact. So we've done a lot of things wi…

- Elizabeth Kolbert

Most of us live in parts of the world where we don't expect to see much, and we wouldn't necessarily notice things that are crashing.

- Elizabeth Kolbert

As soon as you acknowledge that we're changing the planet on this scale, that it has very potentially massive repercussions and very damaging repercu…

- Elizabeth Kolbert

If in your lifetime you watch a species go extinct, or plummet almost to the point of extinction, that is a sign that something really serious is goi…

- Elizabeth Kolbert

Though it might be nice to imagine there once was a time when man lived in harmony with nature, it’s not clear that he ever really did.

- Elizabeth Kolbert

Of the many species that have existed on earth - estimates run as high as fifty billion - more than ninety-nine per cent have disappeared. In the lig…

- Elizabeth Kolbert

No matter what Donald Trump says, it's clear that global warming is rapidly changing conditions on our planet.

- Elizabeth Kolbert

Somewhere in our DNA must lie the key mutation (or, more probably, mutations) that set us apart—the mutations that make us the sort of creature that …

- Elizabeth Kolbert

[On the birther movement:] Here we are, quadrillions of bytes deep into the Information Age. And yet information, it seems, has never mattered less.

- Elizabeth Kolbert