During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they move through the green depths of the canopy, like schools of fish.
Richard PrestonThe best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.
Richard PrestonThe Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the end of the world by the division of the circle’s diameter into its circumference.
Richard PrestonTag: mathematics pi ludolphian-number
Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked, even if it's not obvious that they are linked. Events in a forest occur with precision in the flow of tree time, like the motions of an endless dance. (p. 12)
Richard PrestonHumans in space suits make monkeys nervous.
Richard PrestonIt showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.
Richard PrestonTag: nature
He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.
Richard PrestonIn biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple.
Richard PrestonWhen people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.
Richard PrestonTo mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.
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