“We live in a world gone crazy for resources. Everybody on Google Earth can look at this place now. If you don’t move to protect it, it will disappear. Everything in the world is vulnerable.” — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“The Tyrannosaurus rex was a creature of the jungle. She lived in the deepest forests and swamps of North America, not long after it… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“William Duncan Strong was a scholar, a man ahead of his time: quiet, careful and meticulous in his work, averse to spectacle and publicity.… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
I need to write in a small room - the smaller the better. I can't write in a big room where someone might sneak… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“Global warming has opened the southern door of the United States not just to leish but to many other diseases. The big ones now… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“Boxer altered his course subtly, as if that was the way he'd already been going, not looking up to acknowledge he had heard, letting… — douglas preston Copy Share Image
“A strange, pale figure emerged—Pendergast?—and she felt herself suddenly in his arms, lifted bodily as if she were a child again, her head cradled… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
I'm pretty much a 9-to-5 kind of guy. I usually get to work about 8 in the morning, and I work until 4 or… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“People need history in order to know themselves, to build a sense of identity and pride, continuity, community, and hope for the future.” — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“When the team excavated, they uncovered the shattered ruins of a fortress, over fifteen centuries old, with massive walls and eight towers, matching the… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
There are so many journalists out there, I hate to say it, who are lazy and don't do their research - and it shows. — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“What the hell was your pal Bertin demanding?” he asked. “Sipping syrup?” “It’s a cocktail he prefers when he gets, ah, overly excited.” “A… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“No civilization has survived forever. All move toward dissolution, one after the other, like waves of the sea falling upon the shore. None, including… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“She’s more a daiquiri and margarita drinker.”“We all have our flaws,” said Pendergast.” — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
Pirate Hunters is a fantastic book, an utterly engrossing and satisfying read. It tells the story of the hunt for the rare wreck of… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
“Religion arose as an effort to explicate the inexplicable, control the uncontrollable, make bearable the unbearable. Belief in a higher power became the most… — Douglas Preston Copy Share Image
