“In the hurtling pronghorn, the vanished predators have left behind a heartrending spectacle. Through the smoking displays of wild abandon runs a desperate spirit, resigned to racing pickup trucks in its eternal longing for cheetahs.”
William Stolzenburg
Where the Wild Things Were: Life, Death, and Ecological Wreckage in a Land of Vanishing Predators
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