Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
E. O. WILSONI had reached a point in my career in which I was ready to try something new in my writing, and the idea of a novel has always been in the back of my mind.
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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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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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