Ursula Goodenough has integrated her life’s work as a biologist into a religious orientation, that of a religious naturalism.

I can live my life to minimize suffering and promote as much as good as I can, and try through whatever work I do to help others. We can’t get around death, but we can get around poverty. We can try to avoid women being brutalized. We can curb environmental degradation.

One can start from the perspective of a religious naturalist or from the perspective of the world religions and arrive at the same place: a moral imperative that this Earth and its creatures be respected and cherished.

Interview with Ursula Goodenough