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1 " How humans love plundering a forest, like spoiled children with their parents' ATM cards and no concept of moderation "
― Paul Rosolie , Mother of God: An Extraordinary Journey into the Uncharted Tributaries of the Western Amazon
2 " The jungle at night is the greatest freak show on earth. When the sun goes down the landscape welcomes a churning nightshift of murdering, slithering, creeping, fornicating, stalking, swimming, glowing life. To walk the Amazon by night is to enter a world where you are gravely disadvantaged compared to millions of sensory savants. "
3 " God could not be everywhere and so he created mothers; "
4 " They never thought to think that a striped anachronism, one of the old gods, walked unseen among them. The old ones had forgotten; the children had never known. A great thing from an age almost passed, searching for a last place where the deer were plenty and the rivers ran clean. "
― Paul Rosolie , The Girl and the Tiger
5 " In the most savage and dizzyingly vast wilderness on earth, the rule is simple: Never go out alone. Yet there are those among us who have difficulty accepting what we have not found out for ourselves, who pass a WET PAINT sign and cannot help touching the wall. We simply have to know. "
6 " At a time in history when scientists are recording unprecedented extinction rates and many people feel that the loss of biological diversity and deteriorating natural systems is the defining issue of our time, the west Amazon is ground zero. Nowhere are the stakes higher. "
7 " All of it must have been ordered by a great mind, an apostle of nature, one deeply fluent in natural history. "
8 " You can't stop them. Some people don't care if a girl cries, or a tiger dies. They have rules. I did what I had to and we survived. "
9 " Carl Sagan put it in its simplest terms when he wrote, “Anything else you’re interested in is not going to happen if you can’t breathe the air and drink the water.” Despite "
10 " I needed adventure: not a vacation, not a distraction, but true, meaningful adventure. "
11 " Heroism was a logical alternative, the only neutralizing agent against the atrocious mundane acceptance that the adult world seemed to operate upon. "
