I am going to include a few of my favorites. As I put this post together, I realized that there were many passages I liked, but few that made sense when just a few sentences were singled out. But here are some that work, more or less.
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Rarely do I get a quote from the very first page of a book:
Radiant.
Literally radiant. But not giving off light as saints are shown with a halo. He radiates unseen danger to others from a destructive substance that has been directed to counter what was destroying him. Had him by the throat. Cancer of the thyroid gland.
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His work is scientific, in collaboration with the greatest scientist of all, nature, who has the formula for everything, whether discovered or still a mystery to research by its self-styled highest creation.
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Surely there is no purposelessness the music you love cannot deny by the act of your listening.
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This passage actually goes on for far longer and makes the entire book worth it, in my opinion:
The Okavango delta in co-existence with a desert is a system of elements contained, maintained-by the phenomenon itself, unbelievably, inconceivably. ... Where to begin understanding what we've only got a computerspeak label for, ecosystem? Where to decide it begins.
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Visting a natural area with nesting endangered eagles:
Lyndsay was the one who noticed the leafy twigs, as the leaflet had described, on the mess of the nest on the right--from the viewer's not the bird's point of view. The wings of night against sun-paled sky continued to plane and dip; and then there was a descent, the transforming mastery that was the eagle's was gone, collapsed in a bird.
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