小说的伟大之处在于它让你看见，它让你感受，它让你知道。

在拥有数据之前进行理论化是一个重大错误。

When we protect the ocean's biodiversity, we're ultimately protecting our own food security.

I'm drawn to a lovely quote by St. Augustine in "The City of God," where he says, "It's a sin to judge any man by his post." In modern English that would mean it's a sinto come to any view of who you should talk to, dependent on their business card. It's not the post that should count. According to St. Augustine, only God can really put everybody in their place; he's going to do that on the Day of Judgment, with angels and trumpets, and the skies will open. Insane idea, if you're a secularist person, like me. But something very valuable in that idea, nevertheless.