John

“Don’t come here. Stay away. There are humans here, and you can’t trust them.”
― James S.A. Corey, Nemesis Games

“the outbreak was only possible because of poverty, malnutrition, poor sanitation, dangerous working conditions, and inequities perpetuated by incompetent politicians and negligent aristocrats.”
― Ed Yong, The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2021

“We only have a rough sense of the sense that senses roughness.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us

“The most extensive sense of taste in nature surely belongs to catfish. These fish are swimming tongues. They have taste buds spread all over their scale-free bodies, from the tips of their whisker-like barbels to their tails. There’s hardly a place you can touch a catfish without brushing thousands of taste buds. If you lick one of them, you’ll both simultaneously taste each other.”
― Ed Yong, An Immense World: How Animal Senses Reveal the Hidden Realms Around Us