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AIDS is the revenge of the rain forest.
— Richard Preston
You can't fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.
— Richard Preston
These trees can teach us how we can live. We can be hammered and burned, and we an come back and be more beautiful as we grow.
— Richard Preston
A policy of moving out and doing it, and asking forgiveness afterward, is much better than a policy of asking permission and having it denied.
— Richard Preston
If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.
— Richard Preston
He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.
— Richard Preston
I happen to love science ... Scientists are all slightly mad. There is truth in the stereotype of the mad scientist. They are mad with curiosity.
— Richard Preston
I think we sometimes give ourselves a little too much credit as humans, as being able to control and understand nature, when in fact we do neither.
— Richard Preston
The emergence of AIDS, Ebola, and any number of other rain-forest agents appears to be a natural consequence of the ruin of the tropical biosphere.
— Richard Preston
When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.
— Richard Preston
And sometimes he thought of a favorite saying, a remark by Louis Pasteur, Chance favors the prepared mind.
— Richard Preston
Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods.
— Richard Preston
But no one could control Mark Littleberry; the man was fundamentally uncontrollable.
— Richard Preston
Farms on the lower slopes of the mountain. As the eye moved from
— Richard Preston
Green darners never attack people, but they have been seen bringing down hummingbirds. They are the Bengal tigers of the microworld.
— Richard Preston
They went through Crescent City, a tired-looking town, where you could get a beer for a dollar and maybe get a fractured skull for nothing.
— Richard Preston
Mysteriously, almost unaccountably, my family had ended up in the trees, sort of like the Swiss Family Robinson.
— Richard Preston
The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.
— Richard Preston
To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.
— Richard Preston
... tree has had a stroke, and its top dies. A redwood can deal with a stroke. It simply grows a new top in a few centuries.
— Richard Preston
I don't believe in a biological apocalypse, but I think there is stormy biological weather ahead as the human population continues to grow.
— Richard Preston
It turns out, from what I hear, that roasted fruit bats are delicious.
— Richard Preston
The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.
— Richard Preston
Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.
— Richard Preston
Chance favors the prepared mind.
— Richard Preston
Initially, there were a lot of fears that Ebola could mutate to become the airborne Andromeda strain that would wipe us all out.
— Richard Preston
It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.
— Richard Preston
A good businessman is hard to bruise and quick to heal.
— Richard Preston