"The beauty of the forest is extraordinary — but “beauty” is too simple a word, for being here is not just an aestheti…"

"Lemurs are close to the ancestral stock from which all primates arose, and I am happy to think that one of my own anc…"

"Some employees in slaughterhouses, she notes, rapidly develop a protective hardness and start killing animals in a pu…"

"Temple is an intensely moral creature. She has a passionate sense of right and wrong, for example, in regard to the t…"

"Temple, who was driving, suddenly faltered and wept. “I’ve read that libraries are where immortality lies. . . . I do…"

"While autism is a developmental disorder, sometimes a devastating one, there is always within the autism a unique and…"

"Hydrogen selenide, I decided, was perhaps the worst smell in the world. But hydrogen telluride came close, was also a…"

"We had a large old-fashioned battery, a wet cell, in the kitchen, hooked up to an electric bell. The bell was too com…"

"I never heard [my parents] talk between themselves about Palestine or Zionism, and I suspected they had no strong con…"

"On one occasion—it was an oppressive Saturday in the tense summer of 1939—I decided to ride my tricycle up and down E…"