'The Creation' presents an argument for saving biological diversity on Earth. Most of the book is for as broad an audience as possible.

Adults forget the depths of languor into which the adolescent mind decends with ease. They are prone to undervalue the mental growth that occurs during daydreaming and aimless wandering

This is the assembly of life that took a billion years to evolve. It has eaten the storms - folded them into its genes - and created the world that created us. It holds the world steady.

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

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.

The evolutionary epic is ... the best myth we will ever have.

In the early stages of creation of both art and science, everything in the mind is a story.