There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

On the lawn next to the sidewalk a fire ant colony is swarming. The ants are pouring out of a mound nest, here no more than an irregular pile of dirt partly flattened by the last pass of a lawnmower. Winged queens and males are taking off on their nuptial flight, protected by angry-looking workers that run up and down the grass blades and out onto the blistering-hot concrete of the sidewalk. The species is unmistakably Solenopsis geminata, the native fire ant.

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.

The beginning of wisdom, as the Chinese say, is calling things by their right names.

Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself.

I thought perhaps it should be recognized that religious people, including fundamentalists, are quite intelligent, many of them are highly educated, and they should be treated with complete respect.

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.