David Quammen Quote
Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications. There’s a nice word: ramifications. It’s especially good in this context because, while the literal definition is a structure formed of branches, from the Latin ramus, of course the looser definition is implications. Darwin’s tree certainly had implications.
David Quammen
Tree of Life, which fills with its dead and broken branches the crust of the earth, and covers the surface with its ever branching and beautiful ramifications. There’s a nice word: ramifications. It’s especially good in this context because, while the literal definition is a structure formed of branches, from the Latin ramus, of course the looser definition is implications. Darwin’s tree certainly had implications.
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A collection of Quammen's drafts, research, and correspondence is housed in Texas Tech University's Southwest Collection/Special Collections Library. The collection consists of approximately 63 boxes of publicly available literary production, artifacts, maps, and other papers dated from 1856–2014.