In discussion on whether it was worth the effort to find and save a threatened species, vs putting resources to other use, the comment, “It’s not one species, it’s millions of years of evolution.”

“Extinction has no dramatic flourish—no final explosion or last gasp-- to signal a lost cause’s conclusion. We just have to listen until silence itself says something meaningful.”

**The Strange Quest to Save North America’s Most Elusive Oak Tree by Marion Renault Dec20,2021 The New Republic