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.
E. O. WILSONIdeas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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I 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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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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