I suspect that happiness is not a state but rather a transition.

Crying wolf is a real danger.

Climate change will affect the whole of humanity, while terrorist attacks will only affect a small section of humanity. Of course, you wouldn't say that if you were related to someone who had been beheaded or blown up or murdered.

I'm a humanist. I'm neither one side nor the other.

It is that range of biodiversity that we must care for - the whole thing - rather than just one or two stars.

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

Children start off reading in books about lions and giraffes and so on, but they also-if theyre lucky enough and have reasonable privileges of any human being-are able to go into a garden and turn over stone and see a worm and see a slug and see an ant.