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David Quammen Quotes

The elk are the most abundant large herbivores in the Yellowstone ecosystem. There are thousands and thousands of them. They migrate in and out. And those migration routes need to stay open Picture Quote #1

Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation Picture Quote #1

We’re shaking loose viruses and dislodging them from their natural ecological limitations, places where they aren’t very abundant and have competition, even within a single animal. We introduce them into a new, rich habitat called the human population, where they can flourish more abundantly and cause more trouble Picture Quote #1

Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I’ve spent a lot of time in the forests of central Africa. I know they’re beautiful places that contain a lot of different kinds of creatures, including some that carry Ebola Picture Quote #1

You can’t take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus Picture Quote #1

There’s a belief in some cultures that if a person experiences good fortune in financial terms and does not share the good fortune, when that person becomes ill with a mysterious fever and dies, people tend to say: ‘Aha! It was because he didn’t share. It was the spirits who brought him down.’ Picture Quote #1

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One of the things that’s particularly nefarious about Ebola is that it continues to live in a dead person for some period of time after death. A person who’s been dead for a day or two may still be seething with Ebola virus Picture Quote #1

I used to read only fiction. Now I don’t read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel Picture Quote #1

I’m a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist Picture Quote #1

On April 3, 2014, Jane Goodall turned 80. The iconic blond ponytail has gone gray, but the sparkle of intelligence, sly humor, and fierce dedication still shines from her hazel eyes Picture Quote #1

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn’t rush into it Picture Quote #1

The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning Picture Quote #1

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Islands are where species go to die Picture Quote #1

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation Picture Quote #1

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The elk are the most abundant large herbivores in the Yellowstone ecosystem. There are thousands and thousands of them. They migrate in and out. And those migration routes need to stay open (David Quammen Quotes) Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation (David Quammen Quotes) We’re shaking loose viruses and dislodging them from their natural ecological limitations, places where they aren’t very abundant and have competition, even within a single animal. We introduce them into a new, rich habitat called the human population, where they can flourish more abundantly and cause more trouble. (David Quammen Quotes) Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I’ve spent a lot of time in the forests of central Africa. I know they’re beautiful places that contain a lot of different kinds of creatures, including some that carry Ebola. (David Quammen Quotes) You can’t take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus (David Quammen Quotes) There’s a belief in some cultures that if a person experiences good fortune in financial terms and does not share the good fortune, when that person becomes ill with a mysterious fever and dies, people tend to say: ‘Aha! It was because he didn’t share. It was the spirits who brought him down.’ (David Quammen Quotes) One of the things that’s particularly nefarious about Ebola is that it continues to live in a dead person for some period of time after death. A person who’s been dead for a day or two may still be seething with Ebola virus. (David Quammen Quotes) I used to read only fiction. Now I don’t read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel. (David Quammen Quotes) I’m a white, middle-class male who had a happy childhood in Ohio. The world does not need me to be a novelist. (David Quammen Quotes) On April 3, 2014, Jane Goodall turned 80. The iconic blond ponytail has gone gray, but the sparkle of intelligence, sly humor, and fierce dedication still shines from her hazel eyes. (David Quammen Quotes) Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn’t rush into it (David Quammen Quotes) The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning (David Quammen Quotes) Islands are where species go to die (David Quammen Quotes) Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation (David Quammen Quotes)