Biodiversity is the totality of all inherited variation in the life forms of Earth, of which we are one species. We study and save it to our great be….

Humanity today is like a waking dreamer, caught between the fantasies of sleep and the chaos of the real world. The mind seeks but cannot find the pr….

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 we….

Darwin's dice have rolled badly for Earth. The human species is, in a word, an environmental abnormality. Perhaps a law of evolution is that intellig….

People must belong to a tribe; they yearn to have a purpose larger than themselves. We are obligated by the deepest drives of the human spirit to mak….

If enough species are extinguished, will the ecosystems collapse, and will the extinction of most other species follow soon afterward? The only answe….

We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom. The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right in….

There can be no purpose more enspiriting than to begin the age of restoration, reweaving the wondrous diversity of life that still surrounds us..

Overall, the human brain is the most complex object known in the universe - known, that is, to itself..

People would rather believe than know..

If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months..

You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path. Aim high. Behave hono….

You teach me, I forget. You show me, I remember. You involve me, I understand..

Each species is a masterpiece, a creation assembled with extreme care and genius..

Destroying a tropical rainforest for profit is like burning all the paintings of the Louvre to cook dinner..

The human race is not divided into two opposing camps of good and evil. It is made up of those who are capable of learning and those who are incapabl….

The cost of scientific advance is the humbling recognition that reality was not constructed to be easily grasped by the human mind. This is the cardi….

Look closely at nature. Every species is a masterpiece, exquisitely adapted to the particular environment in which it has survived. Who are we to des….

We exist in a bizarre combination of Stone Age emotions, medieval beliefs, and god-like technology..

Without the instruments and accumulated knowledge of the natural sciences... humans are trapped in a cognitive prison. They are like intelligent fish….

The real problem of humanity is the following: we have paleolithic emotions; medieval institutions; and god-like technology. And it is terrifically d….