How we cite our quotes: (Part.Chapter.Paragraph)
Quote #7
"Not that your brother and his new type of banana aren't fascinating" (2.13.35)
Come on, Joey, really? Growing food is just a little bit important, you know, for our survival and stuff. But that's the Lake Windsor attitude—until it's in the Whole Foods, they don't' want to know about it.
Quote #8
Your koi are a gourmet meal for the ospreys out on Route 89. (2.13.25)
Hee-hee. Ospreys eating gourmet meals. In little bird tuxedos. Oh, yeah, and this is what happens to invasive, non-native species: they become sushi. Also, morbidly, they become lightening victims.
Quote #9
"(T)he muck fire is still burning, and now we have swarms of mosquitoes breeding in the swamp that we created out there" (2.13.29)
This is what we call a cascade of interventions: trying to fix something just breaks more things, and pretty soon you've swallowed a horse.