Quotes About David Quammen

Numbers can be an important aspect of understanding infectious disease. Take measles. At first glance, it might seem nonmathematical. It's caused by a paramyxovirus

It testified, I suppose, to the genderless ferocity of her mind." "Why

Es de suponer que, cuando llegue la próxima gran pandemia, es probable que se conforme a ese mismo y perverso patrón, el de la elevada infectividad antes de los síntomas notables, que la ayudará a moverse entre ciudades y aeropuertos como un ángel de la muerte.

Does a virus constitute wildlife?

you're a carnivore, you're a carnivore, so what's the merit of fine distinctions?

What it means is that individual effort, individual discernment, individual choice can have huge effects in averting the catastrophes that might otherwise sweep through a herd.

Not only are islands impoverished relative to the mainlands, but small islands are more severely impoverished than large ones. That bit of insight became famed as the species-area relationship.

ISLANDS are worlds in miniature or, as the writer David Quammen observed, "almost a caricature of nature's full complexity." By this account, One Tree is a caricature of a caricature.

I thought 'The Hot Zone' was fascinating, mesmerizing. It's one of the things that got me interested in Ebola.