“This mountain range is big enough and complex enough to actually be a generator of new species. It's actually producing new diversity.”
Bruce Beehler
“As a second generation Irish man I am constantly searching for the Ireland of my childhood. A simpler, happier place like in the film 'The Quiet Man'; but I'm afraid it's gone forever.”
Richard 'Grimesy' Grimes
“This is one of the last new places to go. This mountain range generates its own species, a little bit like the Galapagos.”
“There does seem to be an endemic biota of this mountain range. Forty species is not extraordinary in the raw sense, but [it is extraordinary] that they all came from one place, and we believe that's just the tip of the iceberg.”
“It is not the strongest of the species that survives, nor the most intelligent that survives. It is the one that is the most adaptable to change.”
Charles Darwin
“This paper opens the floodgates for studying a wide range of species. The fundamental mechanisms are probably going to be the same in all vertebrates, as even frogs and fish have gaze control.”
Eric Knudsen
“I think it is outrageous. Here is one of the more charismatic species that our state once had. The mountain lion is native to Missouri.”
Ted Heisel
