We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.

Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.

Far more important throughout the rest of science is the ability to form concepts, during which the researcher conjures images and processes by intuition.

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

These slender little people (Homo Habilis), the size of modern 12 year olds, were devoid of fangs and claws and almost certainly slower on foot than the four legged animals around them. They could have succeeded in their new way of life only by relying on tools and sophisticated cooperative behavior

The vast majority of species that are vanishing, we haven't even discovered yet. How can you possibly put them back in nature if the ecosystem is gone?

The ant world is a tumult, a noisy world of pheromones being passed back and forth.