I think history has shown that the worst way to [try to] bring people over and actually change public opinion is by insult and applied degradation of them.

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.

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

The solutions like freezing zygotes, fertilized eggs, of all kinds of animals and so on, or keeping them in zoos and having arboreta where we have trees, all these things have been promoted. Even getting the complete genetic code of various fishes so we can let them pass away and then we'll pull them back. That is science fiction run amok.

The true evolutionary epic, retold as poetry, is as intrinsically ennobling as any religious epic.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.

If you go from the USA - which, relative to the rest of the world, is in pretty good shape in terms of biodiversity and sustainability - to the tropics, everything gets worse. You have Indonesia, which is destroying its own forest. In West Africa there's no control whatsoever. It's a global situation. For that reason it ties in clearly with the needs and relationships of low-income countries.