Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat t…

Kurt Vonnegut
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Just in the nick of time they realized that it was their own habitat they were wrecking -- that they weren't merely visitors. ✨ Kurt Vonnegut (1999). Galapagos: A Novel, Dial Press
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