Nature Quote by David Quammen Download Open image ““the most serious outbreak on the planet earth is that of the species Homo sapiens.”” — David Quammen ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 3.8 out of 5 (8 ratings) Copy quoteShare Nature Planet earth
“We are currently in the midst of the greatest epidemic sickness known to humanity.” — Paul Levy Copy Share Image
“Make no mistake, they are connected, these disease outbreaks coming one after another. And they are not simply happening to us; they represent the… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“For him the tragedy of Homo sapiens is that the least fit to survive breed the most.” — John Fowles Copy Share Image
“If there was ever a species that deserved purging from the surface of the planet, it is humanity. We are, or should be, a… — Mal Peet Copy Share Image
“I am very confused and it's from a very very long time… ... Already is a disease and it's spreading around the world... GLOBAL WARMING!” — Deyth Banger Copy Share
“Mankind is a plague. Look at you. You rape and pillage, you suck the Earth dry and kill all your kindred. What species has… — Sarwat Chadda Copy Share Image
“When Charles Darwin indicated that Homo sapiens was just another kind of animal, people were outraged.” — Yuval Noah Harari Copy Share Image
The single biggest threat to man's continued dominance on the planet is the virus. — Joshua Lederberg Copy Share Image
I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I am very, very old-fashioned and clumsy. I use those long reporter notebooks. This is what a troglodyte I am. The night before I… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Most Americans know nothing about the African forest, and it seems to them a very scary, spooky dangerous place. I've spent a lot of… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“Horses aren’t native to Australia. They are exotic, first brought there by European settlers barely more than two centuries ago. Hendra is probably an… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Viruses have to live somewhere. They can only replicate in living creatures. So, when the Ebola virus disappears between outbreaks, it has to be… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“People and gorillas, horses and duikers and pigs, monkeys and chimps and bats and viruses: We’re all in this together.” — David Quammen Copy Share Image
Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“Each outbreak, by this view, represents a local event primarily explicable by a larger cause—the arrival of the wave. The main proponent of the… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“The Towner paper contained a very interesting statement, as an aside, concerning the five ebolaviruses: “Viruses of each species have genomes that are at… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning. — David Quammen Copy Share Image
“It comes and it goes. But epidemiologists have recognized that, with measles virus, as with other pathogens, there’s a critical minimum size of the… — David Quammen Copy Share Image
It is indeed a surprising and fortunate fact that nature can be expressed by relatively low-order mathematical functions. — Rudolf Carnap Copy Share Image
“THIS tale of my sore-troubled life I write, To thank the God of nature, who conveyed My soul to me, and with such care… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Put on my J's and dance the whole night away Im naughty by nature like Im hip-hop hooray With my hands in the sky,… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
Borrow trouble for yourself, if that's your nature, but don't lend it to your neighbours. — Rudyard Kipling Copy Share Image
“Men mistook measurement for understanding. And they always had to put themselves at the center of everything. That was their greatest conceit. The earth… — Robert Harris Copy Share Image
“She was, he knew- and had known very early, he supposed- one of those rare and always lovely humans whose moral nature was so… — John Williams Copy Share Image
“When the water covers the earth the sun will vanish the darkess and the cold will come.When the last dragon and the last Elf… — Silvana de Mari Copy Share Image
Well, The Day the Earth Caught Fire was a story... I don't if anybody knows what it is but it was about... in the… — Val Guest Copy Share Image
“It is not the force of the wind, but the depth of the roots.” — Craig D. Lounsbrough Copy Share Image
The history of mankind interests us only as it exhibits a steady gain of truth and right, in the incessant conflict which it records… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
