Shikhar Chauhan

“Illness might progressively vanish so might identity. Grief might be diminished, but so might tenderness. Traumas might be erased but so might history. Infirmities might disappear, but so might vulnerability. Chance would become mitigated, but so, inevitably, would choice.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“Mutants are necessary to maintain the essence of our selves. Our genomes has negotiated a fragile balance between counterpoised forces, pairing strand with opposite strand, mixing past and future, pitting memory against desire. It is the most human of all things that we possess. Its stewardship may be the ultimate test of knowledge and discernment of our species.”
― Siddhartha Mukherjee, The Gene: An Intimate History

“The genome that we decipher in this generation is but a snapshot of an ever-changing document. There is no definitive edition.”
― Matt Ridley, Genome: The Autobiography of a Species in 23 Chapters

“Being in nature refreshes us by ... allowing us to surrender to involuntary attention: the effortless and often enjoyable noticing of sensory stimuli in our environment.”
― Jennifer Ackerman