the biggest threat to the religious experience may well come from organized religion itself.

I am a great fan of the universe, which I take literally: as one. All of it interests me, and it interests me in detail.

I believe consciousness is brazenly physical, a raucous mirage the brain creates to help us survive.

As people flock to urban centers where ground space is limited, cities with green walls and roofs and skyscraper farms offer improved health and well-being, renewable resources, reliable food supply, and relief to the environment.

Because poets feel what we're afraid to feel, venture where we're reluctant to go, we learn from their journeys without taking the same dramatic risks.

Who you are isn't tied solely to what you say, even though it may feel that way to you now.

It's animal by animal that you save a species.