The Deep Green Quotes

“Approaching the beach through the surf, the drivers held the boats just offshore while twenty-four Special Forces operators and three civilians slipped over the sides in the darkness and began wading up onto the sand.”
― John Lyman, The Deep Green

“this is basically a computerized electric boat.” “Electric? You mean like a sub?” “Similar. We’re as quiet in the water as one of the Los Angeles class attack subs ... which is pretty damn quiet for a surface ship.” “So what’s your power source ... nuclear?” “Rolls-Royce ... two gas turbines. They’re based on the same jet engines you see hanging from the wings of a Boeing 777.”
― John Lyman, The Deep Green

“No one’s been able to locate any camp. In fact, there’s no evidence that anyone has camped in the area for years, yet these people disappeared into ...” “The deep green.” “The what?” “The deep green.” Dinning’s eyes glazed for a moment, his mind locked on a distant image. “It’s what I call the jungle. Most people prefer the term rainforest nowadays.”
― John Lyman, The Deep Green

“Zumwalt-class destroyer,” Brooks responded without hesitation. “I know a little about naval vessels, Commander, but I’ve never seen a destroyer like this before.” “She’s a stealth ship, sir ... the only one of her kind. Cost three-and-a-half billion dollars. The stealth design of this thing gives us the radar signature of a row boat. We can get real close to some pretty unfriendly countries without them knowing we were ever there.”
― John Lyman, The Deep Green

“The world was an endless eating machine. Predators and prey. But where did we fit in on the food chain? Sam wondered. It was a question most people would laugh at because the answer seemed so obvious, but after listening to Peter and Dana, she was beginning to believe that it was the microscopic world that stood at the top of the heap. The invisible world had been here long before us, and it would almost certainly be here long after we were gone. Peering”
― John Lyman, The Deep Green

“But why would they want to hide such a cutting edge research facility?” “Probably because they don’t want to advertise what they’re doing,” Dinning replied. “The potential financial rewards for gene-based therapy are huge, and industrial espionage in the field has become rampant over the past few years. The fact that they’ve kept it off the radar makes it perfect for us.” Dana”
― John Lyman, The Deep Green

“You’re starting to get old guy syndrome, Professor.” “You mean because I sound like I long for a past that can never be regained?”
― John Lyman, The Deep Green

“If a time traveler from the 1950’s had landed in today’s America, he would have thought he had landed in some Technicolor nightmare vision of a future that couldn’t possibly exist in a country that had just watched the live broadcast of opening day at Disneyland. He would have shoved his time machine in reverse as quickly as his fingers could throw the switch without ever looking back—praying that what he had just seen wasn’t real. Sam”
― John Lyman, The Deep Green

“Aransas Pass had once been called the shrimp capital of the world. Over three hundred shrimp boats had graced its docks until the industry had collapsed back in the 1970’s—a message from the natural world that the fortunes of man and the bounty of the sea could change in an instant. Walking”
― John Lyman, The Deep Green

“The behaviorists believed it was our environment that shaped the way we interacted with the world around us, while others saw us only as intelligent, biochemical organisms that responded to outside stimuli according to a unique genetic blueprint no matter what environment we came from.”
― John Lyman, The Deep Green