Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
E. O. WILSONWe have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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