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

It's always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That's just in human relationships.

By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.

In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.

All three of the Abrahamic religions were born and nurtured in arid, disturbed environments.

There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us.

We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.