Mathematics to me is like a language I don’t speak though I admire its literature in translation.

The swallow that hibernates underwater is a creature called yearning.

The elk are the most abundant large herbivores in the Yellowstone ecosystem. There are thousands and thousands of them. They migrate in and out. And those migration routes need to stay open.

Nor are we the culmination of evolution, except in the sense that there has never been another species so bizarrely ingenious that it could create both iambic pentameter and plutonium.

Identity is such a crucial affair that one shouldn't rush into it.

By the cold Darwinian logic of natural selection, evolution codifies happenstance into strategy.

Islands are havens and breeding grounds for the unique and anomalous. They are natural laboratories of extravagant evolutionary experimentation.

Among the earliest forms of human self-awareness was the awareness of being meat.

I wrote four novels, but then I realized that the world didn't need me to be a novelist, but the world could use me as a nonfiction writer.

If you are lying in a tent in the Congo jungle, you don't want to be reading about rainforest biology. You want to be in a distant world.

I used to read only fiction. Now I don't read much, only occasionally, such as a Cormac McCarthy or a Jim Harrison novel.

Each segment of the worm is directly reproduced as a whole worm, just as each cell of the American CEO can produce a new CEO.

And where does the power come from, to see the race to its end? From within.

Attachment is the state of ignorance or forgetfulness, and thus clinging to a memory of enjoyment

The only certainty is that we never know what tomorrow holds. We live for today, life is short, so let's enjoy it together while we can.

The right man is the one who seizes the moment.

The Jewish community has always taken care of its own.

Those who claim absolutism is merely a myth are right that it has been misused simply as a byword for political centralisation.

Fortunately, when you're a mom, the responsibility of caring for your child can keep you going.

Do you have any toy train schedules?

For all laws are general judgements, or sentences of the legislator; as also every particular judgement is a law to him whose case is judged.