Quotes

I guess if you want me to do what you say you want me to do, then you're going, to have to say the things you're afraid to say.

We can no more live against Nature than we can live against gravity.

I have utterly no rational belief in astrology, but if someone reads me my horoscope, a tiny part of me always listens and says, "Yes, Yes, that could happen, that makes sense."

Nothing in the community lives in isolation from the rest, not even the queens of the social insects.

Nothing lives only in itself, needing nothing from the community.

Nothing lives only for itself, owing nothing to the community.

Nothing is untouchable or untouched.

Every life is on loan from the community from birth and without fail is paid back to the community in death.

The community is a web of life, and every strand of the web is a path to all the other strands.

Nothing is special.

Nothing lives on a strand by itself, unconnected to the rest.

Everything here is in process.

Pursuing an evolutionarily unstable strategy doesn't eliminate you instantly. It elimates you eventually.

What appears to be kind and is meant to be kind can be the reverse of kind.

Animism perceives itself as allied with science, because both seek truth in the universe itself.

Your god writes in words. The gods I'm talking about write in galaxies and star systems and planets and oceans and forests and whales and birds and gnats.

Our behaivour as a biological population is indistinguishable from the behavior of any other biological population.

This isn't a matter of what individuals do, this is a matter of what whole populations do.

Starving people don't invent lifestyles any more than people falling out of airplanes invent parachutes.