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.

I've found that good dialogue tells you not only what people are saying or how they're communicating but it tells you a great deal - by dialect and tone, content and circumstance - about the quality of the character.

The education of women is the best way to save the environment.

The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper

Human nature is deeper and broader than the artificial contrivance of any existing culture.

Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.

Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.