Going, Going, Gone

The Sixth Extinction 

Sumatran rhino (Dicerorhinus sumatrensis)

Our envelope, as I have called it, the cultural insulation that separates us from nature, is rather like the window of a lit-up railway carriage at night. Most of the time it is a mirror of our own concerns, including our concern about nature.

                                     

                        

Auroch (Bos taurus primigenius)

As a mirror, it fills us with the sense that the world is something which exists primarily in reference to us: it was created for us; we are the centre of it and the whole point of its existence. 

Wooly rhino (Coelodonta Antiquitatis)

 But occasionally the mirror turns into a real window through which we can see only the vision of an indifferent nature that goes along for untold aeons of time without us, seems to have produced us only by accident, and, if it were conscious, could only regret having done so
Northrop Frye, Creation & Recreation  

                                                          
                                                                                                            

 Good Reads: The Sixth Extinction  by Richard Leakey

Good Vibrations:  https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=njtM09ki5nY