Somali is turning into a desert. Rwanda, you can hardly find a place to plant a potato, it's so crowded.

The continued existence of wildlife and wilderness is important to the quality of life of humans.

My father being an outdoors person, he used to take us on quite a few adventures thorugh the wild areas down there, introducing us to alligators and rattlesnakes and all the trees and plants.

The quicker we humans learn that saving open space and wildlife is critical to our welfare and quality of life, maybe we'll start thinking of doing something about it.

The most powerful argument of all for saving open space is economics; in most states, tourism is the number two industry.

How we treat the earth basically effects our social welfare and our national security.

I don't think we're going to save anything if we go around talking about saving plants and animals only; we've got to translate that into what's in it for us.

Preserving a river or a creek can bring a lot of revenue.

I'm a little different from all those conservation types.

According to Johnny Carson, I was the guy who Marlon sent out to do all the dirty work.

I always said it was to be dumb enough to do what Marlon Perkins said to do.

Belief is the wound that knowledge heals.

Just like a sailor who knows before reaching land that it is nearing, life too gives certain signals which indicate how closer you are to manifesting.

The details of what we call our lives go sometimes to form patterns of meaning not unlike those to be found in our preferred sort of fiction.

Oliver Sacks remains my hero to this day. He was one of the first medical writers I read. The other was Lewis Thomas, who is no longer alive but is just heroic to me.

Be prepared to go mad with fixed rule and method.

I'm second in doubles - double vodkas, double scotches.

I can't live without it. I'm on HuskerPedia™ every day.

My hips don't lie and I don't lie either!

Relationships are the core of our existence because they are the core of God's and we are in His image.

That means that the universe is two-dimensional. Matter, energy, time, you, me and the floor are holograms.