Thirty trillion dollars worth of services, scot-free to humanity, every year.

The living environment is the biosphere, the thin layer around the world of living organisms. We're part of that. Our existence is dependent on it in ways that people haven't even begun to appreciate. Our existence depends not just on its existence, but its stability and its richness.

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

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

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.

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

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.