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The Romantic View Of The Natural World As A Blissful Eden Is Only Held By People Who Have No Actual Experience Of Nature. People Who Live In Nature Are Not Romantic About It At All. They May Hold Spiritual Beliefs About The World Around Them, They May Have A Sense Of The Unity Of Nature Or The Aliveness Of All Things, But They Still Kill The Animals And Uproot The Plants In Order To Eat, To Live. If They Don't, They Will Die.

Science Is The Business Of Generating Testable Hypotheses.

The Extreme Positions Of The Crossfire Syndrome Require Extreme Simplification - Framing The Debate In Terms Which Ignore The Real Issues.

The Greatest Scientists In History Are Great Precisely Because They Broke With The Consensus. There Is No Such Thing As Consensus Science. If It's Consensus, It Isn't Science. If It's Science, It Isn't Consensus. Period.

One Of The Most Difficult Things For A Writer In This Business To Accept Is The Uncertain Fate Of One's Work.