“The education of women is the best way to save the environment.”

“I had in mind a message, although I hope it doesn't intrude too badly, persuading Americans, and especially Southerners, of the critical importance of land and our vanishing natural environment and wildlife.”

“So in my freshman year at the University of Alabama, learning the literature on evolution, what was known about it biologically, just gradually transformed me by taking me out of literalism and increasingly into a more secular, scientific view of the world.”

“In my heart, I'm an Alabaman who went up north to work.”

“The work on ants has profoundly affected the way I think about humans.”

“I was a senior in high school when I decided I wanted to work on ants as a career. I just fell in love with them, and have never regretted it.”