By my college years, I was a devoted myrmecologist, a specialist on the biology of ants, but my attention and research continued to make journeys across the great variety of life on Earth in general -- including all that it means to us as a species, how little we understand it and how pressing a danger that our activities have created for it.
Do fakultetskog doba bio sam posvećeni mirmekolog, specijalist za biologiju mrava, ali moja pažnja i istraživanja nastavili su vrludati velikom raznolikošću života na Zemlji općenito, uključujući sve što to znači za nas kao vrstu; koliko malo ga razumijemo i koliko prijeteća je opasnost po život stvorena našim aktivnostima.