Once I feel I'm right, I have enjoyed provoking.

One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.

Hands-on experience at the critical time, not systematic knowledge, is what counts in the making of a naturalist. Better to be an untutored savage for a while, not to know the names or anatomical detail. Better to spend stretches of time just searching and dreaming.

I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.

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

Science offers the boldest metaphysics of the age. It is a thoroughly human construct, driven by the faith that if we dream, press to discover, explain, and dream again, thereby plunging repeatedly into new terrain, the world will somehow come clearer and we will grasp the true strangeness of the universe. And the strangeness will all prove to be connected, and make sense.

There doesn't seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.