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Richard Preston Quotes

Green darners never attack people, but they have been seen bringing down hummingbirds. They are the Bengal tigers of the microworld Picture Quote #1

If a healthy person were placed on the other side of a room from a person who was sick with AIDS, the AIDS virus would not be able to drift across the room through the air and infect the healthy person Picture Quote #1

The problem with Ebola is that it makes mistakes while it copies itself. The mistakes are actually good for Ebola because they help Ebola change, and as a result of this, as it jumps from one human body to the next, roughly half the time, it’s got a mutation Picture Quote #1

I don’t believe in a biological apocalypse, but I think there is stormy biological weather ahead as the human population continues to grow Picture Quote #1

The annual flight of the dragonflies goes mostly unnoticed, though it is one of the great migrations of flying creatures that occur across North America Picture Quote #1

In the course of writing ‘First Light,’ I climbed all over and through the Hale Telescope, where I found rooms, stairways, tunnels, and abandoned machines leaking oil. My notebooks show tooth-marks where I gripped them with my teeth while climbing around inside the telescope, and the notebooks are stained with Flying Horse telescope oil Picture Quote #1

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Redwood time moves at a more stately pace than human time. To us, when we look at a redwood tree, it seems to be motionless and still, and yet redwoods are constantly in motion, moving upward into space, articulating themselves and filling redwood space over redwood time, over thousands of years Picture Quote #1

I’m all in favor of looking deeply into as much as we possibly can. I’m not afraid of knowledge... With all new technology, weapons inevitably emerge... Evil comes out of the human heart. It doesn’t come out of nature Picture Quote #1

When you get up into the crown of a redwood tree, you lose sight of the ground entirely. You also lose sight of the sky. And you’re in a lost world. You’re in an undiscovered, unexplored ecosystem, somewhere between Heaven and Earth, filled with forms of life, not all of which have been given names by scientists yet Picture Quote #1

When people asked him why he didn’t work with those viruses, he replied, I don’t particularly feel like dying Picture Quote #1

The seeds of a redwood are released from cones that are about the size of olives. The heartwood of the tree is a dark, shimmery red in color, like old claret. The wood has a lemony scent and is extremely resistant to rot Picture Quote #1

I was surfing the Internet, and I came across a school in Atlanta where you could learn how to climb trees with ropes the way the pros do. It sounded terrific, and so I went down there, and I began to learn these kind of rarified techniques for how you get up and down trees while using special ropes and gear Picture Quote #1

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First Light’ has gotten a reputation as a kind of cult classic about science. I never really intended it to be read as a science book, but books, like children, have a way of choosing their own friends Picture Quote #1

Global climate change has become entangled with the problem of invasive species. A warmer climate could allow some invaders to spread farther, while causing native organisms to go extinct in their traditional habitats and making room for invaders Picture Quote #1

The redwoods you can see in Muir Woods are nothing like the redwood titans that stand in the rainforest valleys of the North Coast, closer to Oregon. These are the dreadnoughts of trees, the blue whales of the plant kingdom Picture Quote #1

Here’s what’s terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It’s a monster without a face. With the science that we have now, we can perceive Ebola as being not one thing but as a swarm, and the swarm is moving through the human population and expanding its numbers. It has the qualities of a monster Picture Quote #1

Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods Picture Quote #1

No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an ancient kind of tree and has come down to our world as an inheritance out of deep time Picture Quote #1

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Redwood rainforest has five to 10 times the biomass - that’s the sheer weight of living material - of, say, deep tropical rainforest in the Amazon basin Picture Quote #1

I think we sometimes give ourselves a little too much credit as humans, as being able to control and understand nature, when in fact we do neither Picture Quote #1

To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax Picture Quote #1

If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi Picture Quote #1

The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite Picture Quote #1

Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous Picture Quote #1

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He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world Picture Quote #1

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 Picture Quote #1

The best way to know what’s in the soup, is to boil yourself in it Picture Quote #1

When people asked him why he didn’t work with those viruses, he replied, I don’t particularly feel like dying Picture Quote #1

In 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 Picture Quote #1

It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty Picture Quote #1

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Green darners never attack people, but they have been seen bringing down hummingbirds. They are the Bengal tigers of the microworld. (Richard Preston Quotes) If a healthy person were placed on the other side of a room from a person who was sick with AIDS, the AIDS virus would not be able to drift across the room through the air and infect the healthy person. (Richard Preston Quotes) The problem with Ebola is that it makes mistakes while it copies itself. The mistakes are actually good for Ebola because they help Ebola change, and as a result of this, as it jumps from one human body to the next, roughly half the time, it’s got a mutation. (Richard Preston Quotes) I don’t believe in a biological apocalypse, but I think there is stormy biological weather ahead as the human population continues to grow. (Richard Preston Quotes) The annual flight of the dragonflies goes mostly unnoticed, though it is one of the great migrations of flying creatures that occur across North America. (Richard Preston Quotes) In the course of writing ‘First Light,’ I climbed all over and through the Hale Telescope, where I found rooms, stairways, tunnels, and abandoned machines leaking oil. My notebooks show tooth-marks where I gripped them with my teeth while climbing around inside the telescope, and the notebooks are stained with Flying Horse telescope oil. (Richard Preston Quotes) Redwood time moves at a more stately pace than human time. To us, when we look at a redwood tree, it seems to be motionless and still, and yet redwoods are constantly in motion, moving upward into space, articulating themselves and filling redwood space over redwood time, over thousands of years. (Richard Preston Quotes) I’m all in favor of looking deeply into as much as we possibly can. I’m not afraid of knowledge... With all new technology, weapons inevitably emerge... Evil comes out of the human heart. It doesn’t come out of nature. (Richard Preston Quotes) When you get up into the crown of a redwood tree, you lose sight of the ground entirely. You also lose sight of the sky. And you’re in a lost world. You’re in an undiscovered, unexplored ecosystem, somewhere between Heaven and Earth, filled with forms of life, not all of which have been given names by scientists yet. (Richard Preston Quotes) When people asked him why he didn’t work with those viruses, he replied, I don’t particularly feel like dying. (Richard Preston Quotes) The seeds of a redwood are released from cones that are about the size of olives. The heartwood of the tree is a dark, shimmery red in color, like old claret. The wood has a lemony scent and is extremely resistant to rot. (Richard Preston Quotes) I was surfing the Internet, and I came across a school in Atlanta where you could learn how to climb trees with ropes the way the pros do. It sounded terrific, and so I went down there, and I began to learn these kind of rarified techniques for how you get up and down trees while using special ropes and gear. (Richard Preston Quotes) First Light’ has gotten a reputation as a kind of cult classic about science. I never really intended it to be read as a science book, but books, like children, have a way of choosing their own friends. (Richard Preston Quotes) Global climate change has become entangled with the problem of invasive species. A warmer climate could allow some invaders to spread farther, while causing native organisms to go extinct in their traditional habitats and making room for invaders. (Richard Preston Quotes) The redwoods you can see in Muir Woods are nothing like the redwood titans that stand in the rainforest valleys of the North Coast, closer to Oregon. These are the dreadnoughts of trees, the blue whales of the plant kingdom. (Richard Preston Quotes) Here’s what’s terrifying about Ebola. Ebola is invisible. It’s a monster without a face. With the science that we have now, we can perceive Ebola as being not one thing but as a swarm, and the swarm is moving through the human population and expanding its numbers. It has the qualities of a monster. (Richard Preston Quotes) Though the redwoods in Muir Woods are hauntingly beautiful trees, they are relatively small and not very tall, at least for redwoods. (Richard Preston Quotes) No one knows exactly when or where the redwood entered the history of life on earth, though it is an ancient kind of tree and has come down to our world as an inheritance out of deep time. (Richard Preston Quotes) Redwood rainforest has five to 10 times the biomass - that’s the sheer weight of living material - of, say, deep tropical rainforest in the Amazon basin. (Richard Preston Quotes) I think we sometimes give ourselves a little too much credit as humans, as being able to control and understand nature, when in fact we do neither (Richard Preston Quotes) To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax (Richard Preston Quotes) If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi (Richard Preston Quotes) The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite (Richard Preston Quotes) Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous (Richard Preston Quotes) He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world (Richard Preston Quotes) 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 Preston Quotes) The best way to know what’s in the soup, is to boil yourself in it (Richard Preston Quotes) When people asked him why he didn’t work with those viruses, he replied, I don’t particularly feel like dying (Richard Preston Quotes) In 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 Preston Quotes) It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty (Richard Preston Quotes)