“The room was a world, a pocket of the past where extinct animals could walk.”

“You know, at times like this one feels, well, perhaps extinct animals should be left extinct.”

“Now, I pray you, cast yourself into a different world, a different trail of thought; step into a place where dragons live and breathe, where they are as real in touch and voice as you or I. Where they face the same extinction every day that they have suffered in our world: the extinction of myth . . . yet where they battle every moment to fend off such a fate for another day . . .”

“...this is the room where the future pours into the past via the pinch of now.”

“Fur, feathers, scales or skin…we coexist. We must. If humans fail to cohabitate with the natural world, they will become extinct. We need the plants, animals and insects far more than they need us.”

“Someone could walk into this room and say your life is on fire.”