People say I am against Darwin. That is ridiculous.

We are all of us walking communities of bacteria. The world shimmers, a pointillist landscape made of tiny living beings.

Life on earth is more like a verb. It repairs, maintains, re-creates, and outdoes itself.

All I ask is that we compare human consciousness with spirochete ecology.

All living beings, not just animals, but plants and microorganisms, perceive. To survive, an organic being must perceive - it must seek, or at least recognize, food and avoid environmental danger.

Natural selection eliminates and maybe maintains, but it doesn't create.

Everybody knows what a caterpillar is, and it doesn't look anything like a butterfly.

Life learned early on to recognize itself.

Evolution is no linear family tree, but change in the single multidimensional being that has grown to cover the entire surface of Earth.

I was taught over and over again that the accumulation of random mutations led to evolutionary change - led to new species. I believed it until I looked for evidence.

The fewer species there are and the fewer species we know about, the fewer questions we even know to ask.

Emptiness is not the opposite of existence. It is not nothingness or annihilation.

Time moves in one direction, memory in another.

Explosion of positive rights started in 1932 with the election of Roosevelt.

Since the beginning, Native Peoples lived a life of being in harmony with all that surrounds us

You're the only one and only My heart's beating for I love you, need I say more

During the 60's, I was, in fact, very concerned about the civil rights movement.

It's great to see young players like Kieran coming out and not being intimidated by it. (on Kieran Richardson)

South Africa's increasingly, for example, the largest foreign investor in various other parts of Africa.

Let us work without desire for name or fame or rule over others. Let us be free from the triple bonds of lust, greed of gain, and anger. And this truth is with us!

The world is full of love and pity, I say. Had there been less suffering, there would have been less kindness.