We tend to think of America's days of frontier exploration as being behind us, but that's because we tend not to think of the other 71% of our blue planet.

Remember that sign they hung up in an EPA office during the Reagan administration, "No good deed goes unpunished"? Under George Bush, no good science goes unpunished.

Bruce Parker's The Power of the Sea is an engaging and essential history of science. It’s also a terrific account of survival on our wild blue planet.

O, wad some Power the giftie gie usTo see oursels as others see us!It wad frae monie a blunder free us, An' foolish notion.

Strive for the Hereafter according to how long you shall remain there, and strive for this world according to how long you shall remain here.

For those who are not hungry, it is easy to palaver about the degradation of charity.

A man is sometimes better off deceived about the one he loves, than undeceived.

Tragedy is the violation of love.

I am a sick man...I am a spiteful man. An unattractive man. I think that my liver hurts.

Everyone assumes because I'm on a reality show I can't act. Which is fine.

The only sensible approach to disease and insect control, I think, is to grow sturdy crops in a healthy environment.

The culture of comfort, which makes us think only of ourselves, makes us insensitive to the cries of other people.

May the countryside and the gliding valley streams content me. Lost to fame, let me love river and woodland.