Quote of the day
Park women, properly so called, are those degraded creatures, utterly lost to all sense of shame, who wander about the paths most frequented after nightfall in the Parks, and consent to any species of humiliation for the sake of acquiring a few shillings
David Quammen
![David Quammen](/img/nopic_profile.png)
Born: February, 1948 (age 76)
Bio: David Quammen is an American science, nature and travel writer and the author of fifteen books, five of them fiction. He wrote a column, called "Natural Acts" for Outside magazine for fifteen years.
Known for:
- The song of the dodo (1996)
- The Reluctant Mr. Darwin (2006)