To romp along the connected rooftops and fire escapes of Chicagos second city of garages was my young lifes passion.

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

Why does everybody agree that atmospheric oxygen comes from life, but no one speaks about the other gases coming from life?

All scientists agree that evolution has occurred-that all life comes from a common ancestry, that there has been extinction, and that new taxa, new biological groups, have arisen. The question is, is natural selection enough to explain evolution? Is it the driver of evolution?

All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.

People think the earth is going to die and they have to save it. Thats ridiculous. If you rid the earth of flowering plants, people would die, period. But the earth was without flowering plants for almost all of its history.