Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
E. O. WILSONOne thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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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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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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