Archive for May, 2007

There is no Practical Alternative to Hope

Not long ago, Arno Chrispeels, a science teacher at California’s Poway High School, invited me to talk with his students about the changed relationship between the young and the natural world. Expecting gum-popping and note-passing (an assumption that reflected my own latent cynicism), I faced 200 intently curious students who seemed starved for something unnamed. [...]