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.

That's the way to get young people. Once they see there are wonderful things to hunt for, to rediscover a species that was thought to be extinct or is extremely rare, to be the first to see a nest, to discover a new species unsuspected close to your home - these are things, I think, with a little education and excitement and the right kind of natural history would actually start a movement that makes going back to nature a profitable adventure.

If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.

It may be argued that to know one kind of beetle is to know them all. But a species is not like a molecule in a cloud of molecules-it is a unique population.

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