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Appearances have enormous importance, Mr. Kessler. The creation and maintenance of appearances. Appearances govern.
— David Quammen
I was a prodigy who learned how difficult writing was only after getting published. I paid my dues later.
— David Quammen
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
A few monkeys and parrots were loose on the wreck, clambering hysterically toward nowhere. He saw several animals disappear into the flames.
— David Quammen
Know that walking into a small woodlot," he wrote, "is riskier than walking into a nearby large, extensive forest.
— David Quammen
And hopefully nothing will happen. But of course, as she well knew, something always does happen. It's just a question of what and when.
— David Quammen
By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.
— David Quammen
Insularity plus time yields divergence.
— Quammen, David
A plate of Ebola virions mixed with Hendra virions would resemble capellini in a light sauce of capers.
— David Quammen
a mutation in that strain might have made it especially aggressive, efficient, transmissible, and fierce.
— David Quammen
Two men, on opposite sides of the world, had made the same great discovery at the same time.
— David Quammen
Mathematics to me is like a language I don't speak though I admire its literature in translation.
— David Quammen
The protein wrap is known as a capsid. The
— David Quammen
Ideas - and where facts were scarce, directive questions. Other
— David Quammen
People and gorillas, horses and duikers and pigs, monkeys and chimps and bats and viruses: We're all in this together.
— David Quammen
Onward we climb. The upper slope is a crust of friable lava. It crunches like peanut brittle beneath our steps.
— David Quammen
But here's a bit of spoilsport historical reality: It wasn't the finches that inspired Darwin, it was the Mockingbirds.
— David Quammen
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.
— David Quammen
Islands are where species go to die.
— David Quammen
A high jeopardy of extinction comes with territory. Islands are where species go to die.
— David Quammen
In ecological terms, we are almost paradoxical: large-bodied and long-lived but grotesquely abundant. We are an outbreak.
— David Quammen
Their most telling improvement involved a fundamental parameter: population size of the hosts.
— David Quammen
It wasn't a petty squabble. It was a big squabble, in which pettiness played no small part.
— David Quammen
I thought 'The Hot Zone' was fascinating, mesmerizing. It's one of the things that got me interested in Ebola.
— David Quammen
Disappointment, in science, is sometimes a gateway to insight.
— David Quammen
