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We all get so excited about the big events, but when there's an animal involved, it's ten times harder.

Each organism, no matter how simple or complex, has around it a sacred bubble of space, a bit of mobile territoriality which only a few other organisms are allowed to penetrate and then only for short periods of time.

I believe the world is increasingly in danger of becoming split into groups which cannot communicate with each other, which no longer think of each other as members of the same species.

War makes strange giant creatures out of us little routine men who inhabit the earth.

Group conformity scares the pants off me because it's so often a prelude to cruelty towards anyone who doesn't want to - or can't - join the Big Parade.

Collective human actions are transforming, even ravaging, the biosphere - perhaps irreversibly - through global warming and loss of biodiversity.

What you see is that the most outstanding feature of life's history is a constant domination by bacteria.

So much the worse, it may be, for a particular meeting: but the meeting is the individual, which on evolution principles, must be sacrificed for the development of the race.

Imagination creates some big monsters.

A chief event of life is the day in which we have encountered a mind that startled us.