All the modern devices we have enable us to investigate things and have enabled us to do better.

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

There is no question that climate change is happening; the only arguable point is what part humans are playing in it.

I would love to see a giant squid. Very few people have seen them. And only about half a dozen people have seen one alive.

I've been to Nepal, but I'd like to go to Tibet. It must be a wonderful place to go. I don't think there's anything there, but it would be a nice place to visit.

I don't think whole populations are villainous, but Americans are just extraordinarily unaware of all kinds of things. If you live in the middle of that vast continent, with apparently everything your heart could wish for just because you were born there, then why worry? [...] If people lose knowledge, sympathy and understanding of the natural world, they're going to mistreat it and will not ask their politicians to care for it.

Crying wolf is a real danger.