Quotes by : Richard Preston

we could eradicate smallpox from nature, but we could not uproot the virus from the human heart

... tree has had a stroke, and its top dies. A redwood can deal with a stroke. It simply grows a new....

In a sense, the Earth is mounting an immune response against the human species. It is beginning to react....

Doctors generally consider smallpox to be the worst human disease. It is thought to have killed more....

The coast redwood is a so-called relict species. It is a tiny remnant of a life form that once spread....

Redwoods flourish in fog, but they don't like salt air. They tend to appear in valleys that are just....

We're creating these massive urban areas in the Third World. It's like you take the entire population....

The coast redwood is the tallest species of tree on earth. The tallest redwoods today are between 350....

The K-T impact had no evident long-lasting effect on the redwoods. It's possible that, after the impact,....

Experiments suggest that if one particle of Ebola enters a person's bloodstream, it can cause a fatal....