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The Entire Range Of Living Matter On Earth From Whales To Viruses And From Oaks To Algae Could Be Regarded As Constituting A Single Living Entity Capable Of Maintaining The Earth's Atmosphere To Suit Its Overall Needs And Endowed With Faculties And Powers Far Beyond Those Of Its Constituent Parts.

The Inertia Of Humans Is So Huge That You Can't Really Do Anything Meaningful.

Our Future Is Like That Of The Passengers On A Small Pleasure Boat Sailing Quietly Above The Niagara Falls, Not Knowing That The Engines Are About To Fail.

By The End Of This Century, Climate Change Will Reduce The Human Population To A Few Breeding Pairs Surviving Near The Arctic.

What I Tend To Do Is To Wake About Five In The Morning-this Happens Quite Often-think About The Invention, And Then Image It In My Mind In 3d, As A Kind Of Construct. Then I Do Experiments With The Image...sort Of Rotate It, And Say, 'well What'll Happen If One Does This?' And By The Time I Get Up For Breakfast I Can Usually Go To The Bench And Make A String And Sealing Wax Model That Works Straight Off, Because I've Done Most Of The Experiments Already.