Richard Preston Quotes
If a portion of a redwood is rotting, the redwood will send roots into its own form and draw nutrients out of itself as it falls apart. If we had redwood-like biology, if we got a touch of gangrene in our arm, then we could just, you know, extract the nutrients and the moisture out of it until it fell off.
Richard Preston
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For before this I was born once a boy, and a maiden, and a plant, and a bird, and a darting fish in the sea.
Empedocles
Well, the reality of her father was that he was a very diseased alcoholic, who died at the age of 34. And one always has to pause to wonder how much you have to drink to die at 34. And he was a really tragic father. I mean, he was absolutely unreliable. He was absolutely involved with various people. He had outside families, outside children, outside wives. He made his wife's life miserable. And she Eleanor Roosevelt ignored all of his faults and retained this sense of him as the perfect father.
Blanche Wiesen Cook
Oh, complain, complain! you know, when life gives you lemons.
Ahn Jae-hyo
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The man coming back from the hard mountain trip is a wiser being, calmer and radiating inside. I'd say momentary liberated.
Wojciech Kurtyka
Biology is the least of what makes someone a mother.
Oprah Winfrey
Darwin was a biological evolutionist, because he was first a uniformitarian geologist. Biology is pre-eminent to-day among the natural sciences, because its younger sister, Geology, gave it the means.
Charles Lapworth
