Best Quotes by David Quammen (Top 7)

  1. 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.
  2. The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.
  3. Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.
  4. Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.
  5. By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.
  6. Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.
  7. Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.