Great Attention Gets Paid To

The Value Of Sharks' Lives Is Now Widely Understood To Be More Important Than Their Value As Products. And When You Have Sharks In An Area, It's A Sign Of Good Health. They're Top Predators, Which Means They Feed On Old, Sick, And Slower Fish, Keeping An Entire Population Healthy.

There's Something Missing About How We're Informing The Youngsters Coming Along About What Matters In The World. We Teach Them The Numbers And The Letters, But We Fail To Communicate The Importance Of Our Connection To The Living World.

If Somebody Dumps Something Noxious In My Back Yard, The Dumper Is The Last One I Would Call On To Repair The Damage.

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.

I Hope That Someday We Will Find Evidence That There Is Intelligent Life Among Humans On This Planet.