David Quammen Quotes - Page 2

• 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

  Lying, Reading, World

  Source: www.bostonglobe.com

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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

  Yellowstone, Ecosystems, Needs

  Source: www.npr.org

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

  David Quammen

  Literature, Language, Speak

  "Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic". Book by David Quammen, 2012.

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