Rather Than Be Afraid Of Evolution And

Look At The Bark Of A Redwood, And You See Moss. If You Peer Beneath The Bits And Pieces Of The Moss, You'll See Toads, Small Insects, A Whole Host Of Life That Prospers In That Miniature Environment. A Lumberman Will Look At A Forest And See So Many Board Feet Of Lumber. I See A Living City.

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.

The Most Important Thing For People To Know About The Governance Of The Arctic Is That We Have A Chance Now To Act To Maintain The Integrity Of The System Or To Lose It. To Lose It Means That We Will Dismember The Vital Systems That Make The Arctic Work. It's Not Just A Cost To The People Who Live There. It's A Cost To All People Everywhere.

Nearly All Of The Major Kinds Of Life, Divisions Of Life, Phyla Of Animals, Occur In The Sea. Only About Half Of Them Can Make It To Land Or Freshwater.

We're Still Under The Weight Of This Impression That The Ocean Is Too Big To Fail, That The Planet Is Too Big To Fail.