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.
E. O. WILSONThere is no better high than discovery.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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