One planet, one experiment.

No species ... possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by genetic history ... The human mind is a device for survival and reproduction, and reason is just one of its various techniques.

The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.

The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.

In science, obsessiveness under psychological control can be a virtue.

Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

I doubt that most people with short-term thinking love the natural world enough to save it.