"I don't want to be a passenger in my own life."

"I don't want to get to the end of my life and find that I just lived the length of it. I want to live the width of it…"

"I plan my garden as I wish I could plan my life, with islands of surprise, color, and scent. A seductive aspect of ga…"

"Human beings are sloshing sacks of chemicals on the move."

"... you don't have to be larger than life to come to the aid of somebody in trouble. All you need to be able to be co…"

"... extinction is happening very fast, because we've been destroying habitats — and polluting things. And there may c…"

"Why humans feel pain has been the subject of theological debate, philosophical schisms, psychoanalytical edicts, and …"

"What I’m really wondering is why notices were posted and invitations sent out at all: If it’s a psychics’ convention,…"

"We tend to see our distant past through a reverse telescope that compresses it: a short time as hunter-gatherers, a l…"

"“When I set a glass prism on a windowsill and allow the sun to flood through it, a spectrum of colors dances on the f…"