Best Quotes by David Quammen (Top 7)
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Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.
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The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.
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Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.
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Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.
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By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.
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Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.
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Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.
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