“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.”

“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)”

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

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

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

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

“Humans in space suits make monkeys nervous.”