The Diversity Of Life (Penguin Science)

�In the Amazon Basin the greatest violence sometimes begins as a flicker of light beyond the horizon. There in the perfect bowl of the night sky, untouched by light from any human source, a thunderstorm sends its premonitory signal and begins a slow journey to the observer, who thinks: the world is about to change.� Watching from the edge of the Brazilian rain forest, witness to the sort of…