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David Quammen
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I'm just back from a couple of lecture trips, one of which (to Ottawa) involved accepting the Stephen Jay Gould Award from the Society for the Study of Evolution, and doing the Gould Lecture there to an audience of 2,000. The nice thing about lecturing to a big audience, in contrast to a small one, is that when it's 2,000 folks you know that SOMEBODY out there will laugh at the jokes.
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“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime. A good book, resting unopened in its slot on a shelf, full of majestic potentiality, is the most comforting sort of intellectual wallpaper.”
― David Quammen
― David Quammen
“Of course anyone who truly loves books buys more of them than he or she can hope to read in one fleeting lifetime.”
― David Quammen, The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
― David Quammen, The Boilerplate Rhino: Nature in the Eye of the Beholder
“Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.”
― David Quammen, Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
― David Quammen, Monster of God: The Man-Eating Predator in the Jungles of History and the Mind
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