Animals have personalities and minds and emotions.

Your life matters. You can't live through a day without making an impact on the world. And what's most important is to think about the impact of your actions on the world around you.

What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make.

It's the bond between mother and child, which is really for us and for chimps and other primates, the root of all the expressions of social behavior.

Well, in some ways we're not successful at all. We're destroying our home. That's not a bit successful.

Some humans are mathematicians-others aren't.

Words can enhance experience, but they can also take so much away. We see an insect and at once we abstract certain characteristics and classify it - a fly. And in that very cognitive exercise, part of the wonder is gone. Once we have labeled the things around us we do not bother to look at them so carefully. Words are part of our rational selves, and to abandon them for a while is to give freer reign to our intuitive selves.