The need is not really for more brains, the need is now for a gentler, a more tolerant people than those who won for us against the ice, the tiger and the bear. The hand that hefted the ax, out of some old blind allegiance to the past fondles the machine gun as lovingly. It is a habit man will have to break to survive, but the roots go very deep.

The Immense Journey: An Imaginative Naturalist Explores the Mysteries of Man and Nature (ed. Vintage, 2011) - ISBN: 9780307801937