I’m not a pessimist. I’m an optimist trained in pessimism.

We are survival machines—robot vehicles blindly programmed to preserve the selfish molecules known as genes.

想像力比知识更重要。因为知识是有限的，而想像力是无限,它包含了一切,推动着进步,是人类进化的源泉。

Technology in fisheries should serve conservation first, then commerce.

The best solutions often come from listening—to nature, to science, and to the people on the ground.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourse of my book friends.