Everywhere, words are mixing. Words and lyrics and dialogue are mixing in a soup that could trigger a chain reaction…

Many years ago I watched my daughter and her ‘Anglo’ friend take their infant sons out for their first springtime…

E.O. Wilson has written: ’... the next century will see the closing of the Cenozoic Era (the Age of Mammals) and a new one characterized not by new life forms but by biological impoverishment…

People believe in God because the world is very complicated and they think it is very unlikely that anything as complicated as a flying squirrel or the human eye or a brain could happen by chance…

And then I thought about how, for a long time, scientists were puzzled by the fact that the sky is dark at night, even though there are billions of stars in the universe…

Streams evolve through a balance of forces. The bed shifts as it erodes one bank and dumps its remains on the other…

Cities do not last. The first was founded but ten thousand years ago, and many have come and gone since then…

When their fuel runs out, stars collapse dramatically in upon themselves, and as they do so, enormous amounts of gravitational energy are released and converted into heat…

You stand there, braced. Cloud shadows race over the buff rock stacks as a projected film, casting a queasy, mottled ground rash…

A thought: Sometimes the clouds and sunlight will form in a way you’ve never seen them do before, and your city will feel as if it’s another city altogether…

You and I also began with the Big Bang, because all substance in the universe is an organic unity…