Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to destroy or even diminish biodiversity?
We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology.
If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago. If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand.
Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner.
Sometimes a concept is baffling not because it is profound but because it is wrong.
We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically dangerous, and it is now approaching a point of crisis overall.
When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
The search for knowledge is in our genes. It was put there by our distant ancestors who spread across the world, and it’s never going to be quenched.
Humanity, in the desperate attempt to fit 8 billion or more people on the planet and give them a higher standard of living, is at risk of pushing the rest of life off the globe.
There is no better high than discovery.
The ideal scientist thinks like a poet and works like a bookkeeper.
We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.