The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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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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A very Faustian choice is upon us: whether to accept our corrosive and risky behavior as the unavoidable price of population and economic growth, or to take stock of ourselves and search for a new environmental ethic.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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