I've been bitten by a python. Not a very big one. I was being silly, saying: 'Oh, it's not poisonous...' Then, wallop! But you have fear around animals.
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.