The Ocean Seemed Like A

Meat Reared On Land Matures Relatively Quickly, And It Takes Only A Few Pounds Of Plants To Produce A Pound Of Meat.

We Are Taking Way More Out Of The Ocean Than The Ocean Can Replenish.

Most Of Life On Earth Has A Deep Past, Much Deeper Than Ours. And We Have Benefited From The Distillation Of All Preceding History, Call It Evolutionary History If You Will.

Why Does Evolution Matter? There Is So Much About The Evolution Of Life, The Development Of Life On Earth That Should Rivet The Attention Of Everyone To Understand Where We've Come From And Where We Might Be Going. We Need To Understand The World Around Us If We Are To Succeed As A Species On The Planet.

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.