Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

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

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

Despite our very recent appearance on the planet, humanity combines arrogance with increasing material demands, even as we become more numerous. Our toughness is a delusion. Have we the intelligence and discipline to vigilantly guard against our tendency to grow without limit?

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

We are unconscious of most of our body's processes, thank goodness, because we'd screw it up if we weren't. The human body is so complex, with so many parts...a system which is far more complex than we can fully imagine. The idea that we are consciously care-taking such a large and mysterious system is ludicrous.

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