Top 60 David Quammen Quotes (2024 Update)
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David Quammen Quote: “R0 explains and, to some limited degree, it predicts. It defines the boundary between a small cluster of weird infections in a tropical village somewhere, flaring up, burning out, and a global pandemic. It came from George MacDonald.”

51. “R0 explains and, to some limited degree, it predicts. It defines the boundary between a small cluster of weird infections in a tropical village somewhere, flaring up, burning out, and a global pandemic. It came from George MacDonald.”

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David Quammen Quote: “If SARS had conformed to the perverse pattern of presymptomatic infectivity, its 2003 emergence wouldn’t be a case history in good luck and effective outbreak response. It would be a much darker story.”

52. “If SARS had conformed to the perverse pattern of presymptomatic infectivity, its 2003 emergence wouldn’t be a case history in good luck and effective outbreak response. It would be a much darker story.”

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David Quammen Quote: “The fossil record shows that no other species of large-bodied beast – above the size of an ant, say, or of an Antarctic krill – has ever achieved anything like such abundance as the abundance of humans on Earth right now.”

53. “The fossil record shows that no other species of large-bodied beast – above the size of an ant, say, or of an Antarctic krill – has ever achieved anything like such abundance as the abundance of humans on Earth right now.”

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David Quammen Quote: “Viruses face four basic challenges: how to get from one host to another, how to penetrate a cell within that host, how to commandeer the cell’s equipment and resources for producing multiple copies of itself, and how to get back out – out of the cell, out of the host, on to the next. A.”

54. “Viruses face four basic challenges: how to get from one host to another, how to penetrate a cell within that host, how to commandeer the cell’s equipment and resources for producing multiple copies of itself, and how to get back out – out of the cell, out of the host, on to the next. A.”

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David Quammen Quote: “Later in conversation he corrected himself: It was in fact 1.1 million pigs. The difference might seem like just a rounding error, he told me, but if you ever had to kill an “extra” hundred thousand pigs and dispose of their bodies in bulldozed pits, you’d remember the difference as significant.”

55. “Later in conversation he corrected himself: It was in fact 1.1 million pigs. The difference might seem like just a rounding error, he told me, but if you ever had to kill an “extra” hundred thousand pigs and dispose of their bodies in bulldozed pits, you’d remember the difference as significant.”

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David Quammen Quote: “From this perspective, the most serious outbreak on the planet earth is that of the species Homo sapiens.”

56. “From this perspective, the most serious outbreak on the planet earth is that of the species Homo sapiens.”

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David Quammen Quote: “Their most telling improvement involved a fundamental parameter: population size of the hosts.”

57. “Their most telling improvement involved a fundamental parameter: population size of the hosts.”

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David Quammen Quote: “In other words, HIV hasn’t happened to humanity just once. It has happened at least a dozen times – a dozen that we know of, and probably many more times in earlier history.”

58. “In other words, HIV hasn’t happened to humanity just once. It has happened at least a dozen times – a dozen that we know of, and probably many more times in earlier history.”

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David Quammen Quote: “It wasn’t a petty squabble. It was a big squabble, in which pettiness played no small part.”

59. “It wasn’t a petty squabble. It was a big squabble, in which pettiness played no small part.”

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David Quammen Quote: “The result will be gradual transmutation of heritable forms, and adaptation to circumstances, by a process of selective culling. Eventually he gave the crank a name: natural selection. Twenty years passed after the E notebook entry. The world heard nothing about natural selection.”

60. “The result will be gradual transmutation of heritable forms, and adaptation to circumstances, by a process of selective culling. Eventually he gave the crank a name: natural selection. Twenty years passed after the E notebook entry. The world heard nothing about natural selection.”

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David Quammen Quote: “So you have density, infectivity, mortality, and recovery – four factors interrelated as fundamentally as heat, tinder, spark, and fuel. Brought together in the critical measure of each, the critical balance, they produce fire: epidemic.”

61. “So you have density, infectivity, mortality, and recovery – four factors interrelated as fundamentally as heat, tinder, spark, and fuel. Brought together in the critical measure of each, the critical balance, they produce fire: epidemic.”

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David Quammen Quote: “You could also buy leopard cat, Chinese muntjac, Siberian weasel, Eurasian badger, Chinese bamboo rat, butterfly lizard, and Chinese toad, plus a long list of other reptiles, amphibians, and mammals, including two kinds of fruit bat. Quite an epicure’s menu. And of course birds: cattle egrets, spoonbills, cormorants, magpies, a vast selection of ducks and geese and pheasants and doves, plovers, crakes, rails, moorhens, coots, sandpipers, jays, several flavors of crow.”

62. “You could also buy leopard cat, Chinese muntjac, Siberian weasel, Eurasian badger, Chinese bamboo rat, butterfly lizard, and Chinese toad, plus a long list of other reptiles, amphibians, and mammals, including two kinds of fruit bat. Quite an epicure’s menu. And of course birds: cattle egrets, spoonbills, cormorants, magpies, a vast selection of ducks and geese and pheasants and doves, plovers, crakes, rails, moorhens, coots, sandpipers, jays, several flavors of crow.”

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David Quammen Quote: “Human-caused ecological pressures and disruptions are bringing animal pathogens ever more into contact with human populations, while human technology and behavior are spreading those pathogens ever more widely and quickly. There are three elements to the situation.”

63. “Human-caused ecological pressures and disruptions are bringing animal pathogens ever more into contact with human populations, while human technology and behavior are spreading those pathogens ever more widely and quickly. There are three elements to the situation.”

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David Quammen Quote: “Any tiny little thing that people do,” Dwyer said, if it makes them different from one another, from the idealized standard of herd behavior, “is going to reduce infection rates.”

64. “Any tiny little thing that people do,” Dwyer said, if it makes them different from one another, from the idealized standard of herd behavior, “is going to reduce infection rates.”

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David Quammen Quote: “History is a fable agreed upon.”

65. “History is a fable agreed upon.”

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David Quammen Quote: “Will the Next Big One come out of a rainforest or a market in southern China?”

66. “Will the Next Big One come out of a rainforest or a market in southern China?”

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David Quammen Quote: “Once a species of insect or bird has reached a new island and established a population, evolution toward gigantism does offer certain advantages: fat storage, thermal stability, and defense against predators, if there are any. But gigantism is also a way of becoming flightless, and flightlessness is a way of becoming marooned.”

67. “Once a species of insect or bird has reached a new island and established a population, evolution toward gigantism does offer certain advantages: fat storage, thermal stability, and defense against predators, if there are any. But gigantism is also a way of becoming flightless, and flightlessness is a way of becoming marooned.”

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