I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me as a nonfiction writer.
Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat. - David Quammen
Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.
- David Quammen
What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. … - David Quammen
What do we measure when we measure time? The gloomy answer from Hawking, one of our most implacably cheerful scientists, is that we measure entropy. …
Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or th… - David Quammen
Kill off the sacred bear. Kill off the ancestral crocodile. Kill off the myth-wrapped tiger. Kill off the lion. You haven't conquered a people, or th…
By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy. - David Quammen
By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.
[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. Tha… - David Quammen
[Theory is] an explanation that has been confirmed to such a degree, by observation and experiment, that knowledgeable experts accept it as fact. Tha…
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
I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.
To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the damming happens witho… - David Quammen
To drown a river beneath its own impounded water, by damming, is to kill what it was and to settle for something else. When the damming happens witho…
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation. - David Quammen
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.
Results "are no good unless they answer (or can be made to seem to answer, or can be twisted and wrenched and piled into odd shapes until they hint a… - David Quammen
Results "are no good unless they answer (or can be made to seem to answer, or can be twisted and wrenched and piled into odd shapes until they hint a…
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