No barrier stands between the material world of science and the sensibilities of the hunter and the poet.

I like what Abba Eban once said during the 1967 war. He said, "When all else fails, men turn to reason."

The human mind evolved to believe in the gods. It did not evolve to believe in biology.

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.

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

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.

I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.