He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

It showed a kind of obscenity you see only in nature, an obscenity so extreme that it dissolves imperceptibly into beauty.

He liked the loneliness of inner space, the sense of being forgotten by the world.

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)

The best way to know what's in the soup, is to boil yourself in it.

The earth is attempting to rid itself of an infection by human parasite.

To mess around with Ebola is an easy way to die. Better to work with something safer, such as anthrax.