You can cry about death and very properly so, your own as well as anybody else's. But it's inevitable, so you'd better grapple with it and cope and be aware that not only is it inevitable, but it has always been inevitable, if you see what I mean.

I suppose happiness is something one enjoys, but I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

All life is related. And it enables us to construct with confidence the complex tree that represents the history of life

It's a moral question about whether we have the right to exterminate species.

Since when has Finland been a rotten place to live in?

‎Using his burgeoning intelligence, this most successful of all mammals has exploited the environment to produce food for an ever increasing population. Instead of controlling the environment for the benefit of the population, perhaps it's time we controlled the population to allow the survival of the environment.

I'm swanning round the world looking at the most fabulously interesting things. Such good fortune.