There are some four million different kinds of animals and plants in the world. Four million different solutions to the problems of staying alive.

Nature isn't positive in that way. It doesn't aim itself at you. It's not being unkind to you.

To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.

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.

Being in touch with the natural world is crucial.

It never really occurred to me to believe in God.

‎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.