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In the realm of evolutionary biology and ecology, ours is an unpredictable world and our place in it an accident of history; it is a place of many possibilities that are influenced by forces beyond our control and, in some cases at least, beyond our immediate comprehension.

—RICHARD LEAKEY AND ROGER LEWIN, The Sixth Extinction (1996), 230–31

Circumstances are like Clouds continually gathering and bursting. While we are laughing the seed of some trouble is put into the wide arable land of events. While we are laughing it sprouts, it grows and suddenly bears a poison fruit which we must pluck.

—JOHN KEATS TO GEORGE AND GEORGIANA KEATS, 14 FEBRUARY–4 MAY 1819