The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats. This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.

That is the great mystery of human evolution: how to account for calculus and Mozart.

So important are insects and other land-dwelling arthropods that if all were to disappear, humanity probably could not last more than a few months.

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

Mating Strategy is influenced by the cardinal fact that women have more at stake in sexual activity than men, because of the limited age span in which they can reproduce and the heavy investment required of them with each child conceived. In courtship women consistently emphasize commitment of resources and material security.

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

Biophilia: the innate pleasure from living abundance and diversity as manifested by the human impulse to imitate Nature with gardens.