1. " Fiordland, a vast tract of mountainous terrain that occupies the southwest corner of South Island, New Zealand, is one of the most astounding pieces of land anywhere on God's earth, and one's first impulse, standing on a clifftop surveying it all, is simply to burst into spontaneous applause."
-- describe the Fiordland in detail. makes reader more understanding its importance ( p. 105 )
2. " The only roads that approach the Fiordland National Park peter out quickly in the foothills, and most visiting tourists only ever explore the fringe scenery." ( p. 106)
-- tells reader that it will be hard to go to Fiordland National Park
3. " The spacious murmur of the valley gradually rises to fill the silence: the low thunder of cataracts, the distant hiss of the sea, the rustling of the breeze in the scrubby grass, the keas explaining who they are to one another." ( p. 110)
-- Explain what is Fiordland looks like
4. " The millennia crawl by pretty bloody slowly while natural selection sifts its way obliviously through generation after generation, favouring the odd aberrant kakapo, which is a little twitchier than its contemporaries, till the species as a whole finally gets the idea."
-- Explain that is living in Fiordland. Millennia. (p. 116)
5. "He puffs out two enormous air sacs on either side of his chest, sinks his head down into them, and starts to make what he feels are sexy grunting noises."
-- Explain how to attract millennia. ( p. 117)
I think these quotes are significant because it tells where they are at and whats over there, how hard it is to get there, what it looks like, what is living over there, and how to attract those things over there.
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