Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.

We're shaking loose viruses and dislodging them from their natural ecological limitations, places where they aren't very abundant and have competition, even within a single animal. We introduce them into a new, rich habitat called the human population, where they can flourish more abundantly and cause more trouble.

Islands are natural workshops of evolution.

Slums may well be breeding grounds of crime, but middle-class suburbs are incubators of apathy and delirium

Yes, natural is good and healthy, and whole foods are important. However, experimentation is important, too.

You can't take a knife on a plane anymore, but you can get on carrying a virus.