Planet Earth Revisited chapter 3
She entered the house. It must have been home to a highly educated person because she saw books all over the place. Taking a look she saw they were about the Amazonian rainforest. Interested, she searched the house and found a diary. It became clear that the former owner of the house was a professor who had worked as a biologist in Brazil. He saw what humans had done to nature and had built the glass house because he wasn't sure if all of the many species that inhabited the Amazon jungle...