Darla Tete

“Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.”
― David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

“We should recognize that they reflect things that we’re doing, not just things that are happening to us. We should understand that, although some of the human-caused factors may seem virtually inexorable, others are within our control.”
― David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

“Our findings highlight the critical need for health monitoring and identification of new, potentially zoonotic pathogens in wildlife populations, as a forecast measure for EIDs.” That sounds reasonable: Let’s keep an eye on wild creatures. As we besiege them, as we corner them, as we exterminate them and eat them, we’re getting their diseases.”
― David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic

“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.”
― David Quammen, Spillover: Animal Infections and the Next Human Pandemic