The Best American Science And Nature Writing 2011 Quotes

“He recovers and seems to possess all his earlier faculties, with one exception: the formerly mild-mannered Gage is now something of a hellion, an impulsive shit-starter.”
― Mary Roach, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011

“it is the Mediterranean, specifically Italy, that gave us the poet Ovid, who in the Metamorphoses deplored the eating of animals, and the vegetarian Leonardo da Vinci, who envisioned a day when the life of an animal would be valued as highly as that of a person, and Saint Francis, who once petitioned the Holy Roman Emperor to scatter grain on fields on Christmas Day and give the crested larks a feast.”
― Mary Roach, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011

“to find. He was trying to requisition some gas-powered leaf blowers to blow the new sand off the old. Nothing was happening”
― Mary Roach, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011

“By the end of the conference, there was a sense that removing the junk is actually possible. "I've gone from being totally skeptical to thinking maybe something will work," Kessler says. "We can bring things down; it's just going to cost a lot.”
― Mary Roach, The Best American Science and Nature Writing 2011