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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."

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: "Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that it could create both iambic pentameter and plutonium."

Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that it could create both iambic pentameter and plutonium.




David Quammen Quotes: "Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it."

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.



David Quammen Quotes: "By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy."

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.




David Quammen Quotes: "Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation."

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



David Quammen Quotes: "Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat."

Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.



David Quammen Quotes: "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."

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.




David Quammen Quotes: "If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world."

If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world.



David Quammen Quotes: "Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation."

Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.



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."

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: "Islands are where species go to die."

Islands are where species go to die.



David Quammen Quotes: "Alternatively, anyone who favors Intelligent Design in lieu of evolution might pause to wonder why God devoted so much of His intelligence to designing malarial parasites."

Alternatively, anyone who favors Intelligent Design in lieu of evolution might pause to wonder why God devoted so much of His intelligence to designing malarial parasites.