A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.

Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition.

Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.

We've got paleolithic emotions, medieval institutions, and god-like technologies.

Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.

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.

In addition I wanted to write a Southern novel, because I'm a Southerner.