We are nature. Our every tinkering is nature, our every biological striving. We are what we are, and the world is ours. We are its gods. Your only difficulty is your unwillingness to unleash your potential fully upon it.

Plenty of people say my guesses about a future drought in the western U.S. (where I live and grew up) are wrong, so I don't see why I won't be wrong in some people's eyes when I go set a story on foreign shores.

Environmental science is telling us a lot about our future and what it could look like, whether we're talking about global warming (the current poster child for the environment) or a loss of genetic diversity in our food supplies, or the effects of low-dose chemicals on human development.

An untrampled scorpion troubles no one.

I do not fight battles that cannot be won. Do not confuse that with cowardice.

Life is exponential. Two becomes four, becomes ten thousand, becomes a plague.

The problem with surviving was that you ended up with the ghosts of everyone you’d ever left behind riding on your shoulders.