I Had This Wonderful, Supportive Mother Who

Some People Actually Do Not Like Animals - Hard For Me To Understand, But True.

Words Can Enhance Experience, But They Can Also Take So Much Away. We See An Insect And At Once We Abstract Certain Characteristics And Classify It - A Fly. And In That Very Cognitive Exercise, Part Of The Wonder Is Gone. Once We Have Labeled The Things Around Us We Do Not Bother To Look At Them So Carefully. Words Are Part Of Our Rational Selves, And To Abandon Them For A While Is To Give Freer Reign To Our Intuitive Selves.

A Book Came Out Recently Written By Scientists And Environmentalists That Made Me So Angry. It Said The Only Thing We Have To Worry About Is Big Industry. Each Individual Who Tries To Make His Or Her Own Environment Better Is Useless. I Find This Criminal, Because Then You Have A Billion People All Saying, It Doesn't Matter What I Do Because I'm Just One Person. But If You Turn That Around And A Billion People Say, What I Do Does Make A Difference, Then It Will Make A Difference.

I Think I'd Like To Be Remembered As Someone Who Really Helped People To Have A Little Humility And Realize That We Are Part Of The Animal Kingdom Not Separated From It.

Certainly The First True Humans Were Unique By Virtue Of Their Large Brains. It Was Because The Human Brain Is So Large When Compared With That Of A Chimpanzee That Paleontologists For Years Hunted For A Half-ape, Half-human Skeleton That Would Provide A Fossil Link Between The Human And The Ape.