The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.

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 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.

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.

The green prehuman earth is the mystery we were chosen to solve, a guide to the birthplace of our spirit, but it is slipping away. The way back seems harder every year. If there is danger in the human trajectory, it is not so much in the survival of our own species as in the fulfillment of the ultimate irony of organic evolution: that in the instant of achieving self-understanding, through the mind of man, life has doomed its most beautiful creations. And thus humanity closes the door on its past.