The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be harnessed to save it. . . . If the race is won, humanity can emerge in far better condition than when it entered, and with most of the diversity of life still intact.

The true cause of hatred and violence is faith versus faith, an outward expression of the ancient instinct of tribalism.

In the natural world, beautiful usually means deadly. Beautiful with a casual demeanor always means deadly.

Little things that run the world.

The race is now on between the technoscientific and scientific forces that are destroying the living environment and those that can be harnessed to save it. . . . If the race is won, humanity can emerge in far better condition than when it entered, and with most of the diversity of life still intact.

No species, ours included, possesses a purpose beyond the imperatives created by its genetic history.