natural habitats Quotes

″‘It’s about those owls.’ ‘Sure.’ ‘What’s gonna happen to them?’ Officer Delinko asked. ‘Once you start bulldozing, I mean.’ Curly the foreman chuckled. He thought the policeman must be kidding. ‘What owls?’ he said.”

″‘How would you and Mom like it,’ Roy pressed on, ‘if a bunch of strangers showed up one day with bulldozers to flatten this house? And all they had to say was ‘Don’t worry, Mr. and Mrs. Eberhardt, it’s no big deal. Just pack up and move to another place.’ How would you feel about that?‘”

″‘Ever since I was little,’ Mullet Fingers said, ‘I’ve been watchin’ this place disappear - the piney woods, the scrub, the creeks, the glades. Even the beaches, man - they put up all these giant hotels and only goober tourists are allowed. It really sucks.‘”