A FIRST-RATE INTELLIGENCE February 1, 1971
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In “The Crack-up” (February, 1936), F. Scott Fitzgerald wrote, “Before I go on with this short history, let me make a general observation — the test of a first-rate intelligence is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time, and still retain the ability to function. One should, for example, be able to see that things are hopeless and yet be determined to make them otherwise.” This is exactly what I’ve been trying to do throughout my career as a naturalist. The human species may be hopeless, but the natural world is not….
