There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.

Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it's a map with constant immediate sensory input.

One planet, one experiment.

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

In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.

I'm very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.

Progress, then, is a property of the evolution of life as a whole by almost any conceivable intuitive standard.... let us not pretend to deny in our philosophy what we know in our hearts to be true.