The most important part of a story is the piece of it you don't know.

Value is not made of money, but a tender balance of expectation and longing.

Scientific illiteracy in our populations is leaving too many of us unprepared to discuss or understand much of the damage we are wreaking on our atmosphere, our habitat, and even the food that enters our mouths.

Children can be your heartache. But that doesn't matter, you have to go on and have them . . . it works out.

The death of something living is the price of our own survival, and we pay it again and again. We have no choice. It is the one solemn promise every life on earth is born and bound to keep.

It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future.

No reporter worth his buttons will let the facts intrude on a good story.