"The intricacy of Ellery and aphids multiplied mindlessly into tons and light-years is more than extravagance; it is h…"

"He didn’t jump; I crept closer. At last I knelt on the island’s winter killed grass, lost, dumbstruck, staring at the…"

"After a natural disaster such as a flood, nature "stages a comeback." People use the optimistic expression without an…"

"The pressure of growth among animals is a kind of terrible hunger. These billions must eat in order to fuel their sur…"

"I don't know what it is about fecundity that so appalls. I suppose it is the teeming evidence that birth and growth, …"

"How we spend our days is, of course, how we spend our lives. What we do with this hour, and that one, is what we are …"

"Like any child, I slid into myself perfectly fitted, as a diver meets her reflection in a pool. Her fingertips enter …"

"The world which lay under darkness and stillness following the closing of the lid was not the world we know. The even…"

"No claims of any and all revelations could be so far-fetched as a single giraffe."

"Whenever a work's structure is intentionally one of its own themes, another of its themes is art."