Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
E. O. WILSONIdeas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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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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If we were to wipe out insects alone on this planet, the rest of life and humanity with it would mostly disappear from the land. Within a few months.
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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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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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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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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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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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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