One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.

Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great benefit. We ignore and degrade it to our great peril.

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

Biology has finally opened up to achieve a unifying embrace of all its disciplines. We're seeing the renaissance of what could be called scientific natural history, which makes available the groundwork - the foundation work - of what is actually on the Earth.

In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.

I see no way out of the problems that organized religion and tribalism create other than humans just becoming more honest and fully aware of themselves.