It seems to me that the natural world is the greatest source of excitement; the greatest source of visual beauty; the greatest source of intellectual interest. It is the greatest source of so much in life that makes life worth living.
If I can bicycle, I bicycle.
To suggest that God specifically created a worm to torture small African children is blasphemy as far as I can see. The Archbishop of Canterbury doesn't believe that.
Everyone likes birds. What wild creature is more accessible to our eyes and ears, as close to us and everyone in the world, as universal as a bird?
We only know a tiny proportion about the complexity of the natural world. Wherever you look, there are still things we donβt know about and donβt understand. [...] There are always new things to find out if you go looking for them.
Crying wolf is a real danger.