Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.

But I feel music has a very important role in ritual activity, and that being able to join in musical activity, along with dancing, could have been necessary at a very early stage of human culture.

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

Known as the biosphere to scientists and as the creation to theologians, all of life together consists of a membrane around earth so thin that it cannot be seen edgewise from a satellite yet so prodigiously diverse that only a tiny fraction of species have been discovered and named.

The history of life on earth has been a history of interaction between living things and their surroundings.

America in particular imposes an horrendous burden on the world. We have this wonderful standard of living but it comes at enormous cost.

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