In the end ... success or failure will come down to an ethical decision, one on which those now living will be judged for generations to come.

I grew up as a Southern Baptist with strict adherence to the Bible, which I read as a youngster.

'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

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.

We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.

It's the technique, I think, of writing a novel that is difficult for a nonfiction writer.

I believe that traditional religious belief and scientific knowledge depict the universe in radically different ways. At the bedrock they are incompatible and mutually exclusive.