We use pandas and eagles and things. I'd love to see a wilderness society with an angry-looking wolverine as their logo.

Genius is the summed production of the many with the names of the few attached for easy recall.

That's the way to get young people. Once they see there are wonderful things to hunt for, to rediscover a species that was thought to be extinct or is extremely rare, to be the first to see a nest, to discover a new species unsuspected close to your home - these are things, I think, with a little education and excitement and the right kind of natural history would actually start a movement that makes going back to nature a profitable adventure.

I want us to save the creation-not just care about it, but to save it.

Old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.

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.

Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.