do it in a way....

Fight for the things that you care about, but do it in a way that will lead others to join you.
-Ruth Bader Ginsburg, US Supreme Court justice (1933-2020)

...endangered spices

We are not an endangered species ourselves yet, but this is not for lack of trying.
-Douglas Adams, author (1952-2001)

...been reading all my life

Don't ask me who's influenced me. A lion is made up of the lambs he's digested, and I've been reading all my life.
-Giorgos Seferis, writer, diplomat, Nobel laureate (1900-1971)

How to be a good writer?

Anyone who wishes to become a good writer should endeavour, before he allows himself to be tempted by the more showy qualities, to be direct, simple, brief, vigorous, and lucid.
-H.W. Fowler, lexicographer (1858-1933)

...fresh beginning

"Every moment is a fresh beginning."

~ T.S. Eliot