Everybody Can Make Choices That Will Make

It's Taken Us A Short Time To Change The Nature Of Nature. In My Lifetime, More Change Than During All Preceding Human History Put Together.

Eating Wildlife Is Probably Not The Smartest Thing That We Can Do In Terms Of Maintaining The Integrity Of Natural Systems.

The Observations That Have Developed Over The Years Have Given Us Perspective About Where We Fit In. We Are Newcomers, Really Recent Arrivals On A Planet That Is Four And A Half Billion Years Old.

I Have Lots Of Heroes: Anyone And Everyone Who Does Whatever They Can To Leave The Natural World Better Than They Found It.

People I Know Who Succeed Don't Mind Working. Those Who Are Competent Seem To Like Doing Things Well -- Not Stopping Because They Haven't Accomplished What They Wanted To On The First Go-round. They're Willing To Do It Twenty Times, If Necessary. There's An Illusion That The Good People Can Easily Do Something, And It's Not Necessarily True. They're Just Determined To Do It Right. I Was Impressed By Hearing One Of The Women At Radcliffe Talk About Writing A Poem, How Many Revisions A Single Poem Sometimes Has To Go Through -- Fifty Or Sixty Revisions To Come Out With A Poem Sixteen Lines Long.