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  • Occasionally they came to villages, and at each village they encountered a roadblock of fallen trees. Having had centuries of experience with the smallpox virus, the village elders had instituted their own methods for controlling the virus, according to their received wisdom, which was to cut their villages off from the world, to protect their people from a raging plague. It was reverse quarantine, an ancient practice in Africa, where a village bars itself from strangers during a time of disease, and drives away outsiders who appear. (94)

  • When people asked him why he didn't work with those viruses, he replied, I don't particularly feel like dying.

    People   Dying   Viruses  
  • The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.

  • In biology, nothing is clear, everything is too complicated, everything is a mess, and just when you think you understand something, you peel off a layer and find deeper complications beneath. Nature is anything but simple.

    Life   Simple   Thinking  
    "The Hot Zone: A Terrifying True Story". Book by Richard Preston, www.dailymaverick.co.za. 1999.
  • If equations are trains threading the landscape of numbers, then no train stops at pi.

    "The Mountains of Pi" by Richard Preston, www.newyorker.com. March 02, 1992.
  • Once the cells in a biological machine stop working, it can never be started again. It goes into a cascade of decay, falling toward disorder and randomness. Except in the case of viruses. They can turn off and go dead. Then, if they come in contact with a living system, they switch on and multiply. (194)

    Fall   Cells   Viruses  
  • You can’t fight off Ebola the way you fight off a cold. Ebola does in ten days what it takes AIDS ten years to accomplish.

    Fighting   Ebola   Years  
    Richard Preston (2012). “The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak”, p.56, Random House
  • It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.

    Richard Preston (2012). “The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak”, p.98, Random House
  • Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.

    Space   Monkeys   Suits  
  • The Ludolphian number is fixed in eternity— not a digit out of place, all characters in their proper order, an endless sentence written to the end of the world by the division of the circle’s diameter into its circumference.

    Richard Preston (2008). “Panic in Level 4: Cannibals, Killer Viruses, and Other Journeys to the Edge of Science”, p.35, Random House
  • To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.

    Ebola   Way   Easy  
    "The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak". Book by Richard Preston, December 31, 2012.
  • He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

    Richard Preston (2012). “The Hot Zone: The Chilling True Story of an Ebola Outbreak”, p.123, Random House
  • During climbs into taller trees, I was occasionally able to look down on the backs of birds, which shine with reflected sunlight as they move through the green depths of the canopy, like schools of fish.

    Moving   School   Shining  
    Richard Preston (2007). “The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring”, p.231, Random House
  • The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

    Soup   Way   Best Way  
  • What can the redwoods tell us about ourselves? Well, I think they can tell us something about human time. The flickering, transitory quality of human time and the brevity of human life - the necessity to love.

  • Time has a different quality in a forest, a different kind of flow. Time moves in circles, and events are linked, even if it's not obvious that they are linked. Events in a forest occur with precision in the flow of tree time, like the motions of an endless dance. (p. 12)

    Moving   Circles   Tree  
    Richard Preston (2007). “The Wild Trees: A Story of Passion and Daring”, p.12, Random House
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