I'm A Humanist. I'm Neither One Side

They Always Mean Beautiful Things Like Hummingbirds. I Always Reply By Saying That I Think Of A Little Child In East Africa With A Worm Burrowing Through His Eyeball. The Worm Cannot Live In Any Other Way, Except By Burrowing Through Eyeballs. I Find That Hard To Reconcile With The Notion Of A Divine And Benevolent Creator.

When I Was A Boy In The 1930s, The Carbon Dioxide Level Was Still Below 300 Parts Per Million. This Year, It Reached 382, The Highest Figure For Hundreds Of Thousands Of Years.

I Don't Think Whole Populations Are Villainous, But Americans Are Just Extraordinarily Unaware Of All Kinds Of Things. If You Live In The Middle Of That Vast Continent, With Apparently Everything Your Heart Could Wish For Just Because You Were Born There, Then Why Worry? [...] If People Lose Knowledge, Sympathy And Understanding Of The Natural World, They're Going To Mistreat It And Will Not Ask Their Politicians To Care For It.

I Don't Run A Car, Have Never Run A Car. I Could Say That This Is Because I Have This Extremely Tender Environmentalist Conscience, But The Fact Is I Hate Driving.

Nothing In The Natural World Makes Sense - Except When Seen In The Light Of Evolution