4 Quotes by Rob Dunn

Every surface; every bit of air; every bit of water in your home is alive. The average house has thousands of species.

Of all the bacterial species in the world, for instance, fewer than fifty regularly cause disease. Just fifty. All the rest of the species are either benign or beneficial to humans, as are nearly all protists and even viruses.

Science is full of egos and arrogance, but it is fuller of simple moments of pleasure at the joy of finding some gem of new knowledge, big or small. Such gems can be anyone’s.

Our pets are good. They keep us happy and healthy. In exchange, we feed them. We pet them. We walk them more than we walk our own human children. In a biological world full of ambiguities, our pets are unambiguous, unambiguously good.