I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. ✨ On extended wings. Bo…

Diane Ackerman
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I don't want to be a passenger in my own life. ✨ On extended wings. Book by Diane Ackerman, 1985.
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Humans are the most successful invasives of all time. ✨ Diane Ackerman (2014). The Human Age: The World Shaped By Us, p.95, W. W. Norton & Company
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