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

Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.

Humanity is exalted not because we are so far above other living creatures, but because knowing them well elevates the very concept of life.

Even as empiricism is winning the mind, transcendentalism continues to win the heart.

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

People respect nonfiction but they read novels.

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