People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
E. O. WILSONNature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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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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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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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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 dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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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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