Slow down and enjoy life. It's not only the scenery you miss by going to fast - you also miss the sense of where you are going and why.
If you want to study one of these strange organisms, you had better have a good justification. It's not good to study gene organisation in some obscure insect that no one's ever heard about.
What I like about non-fiction is that it covers such a huge territory. The best non-fiction is also creative.

