There is no more time-wasting process than that of believing people will act, and then finding that they will not.

If you're dealing with an assembly of biological systems, you can bring the things together, but you can't connect them.

Most biologists, (says Vogel, 1981) seem to have heard of the boundary layer, but they have a fuzzy notion that it is a discrete region, rather than the discrete notion that it is a fuzzy region.

If you let people loose in a landscape and tell them to choose a house site, half of them will go sit on the ridges where they'll die in the next fire, or where you can't get water to them. Or they'll sit in all the dam sites. Or they'll sit in all the places that will perish in the next big wind.

Few people today muck around in earth, and when on international flights, I often find I have the only decently dirty fingernails.

Stupidity is an attempt to iron out all differences, and not to use them or value them creatively.

The American lawn uses more resources than any other agricultural industry in the world. It uses more phosphates than India and puts on more poisons than any other form of agriculture.