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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

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.
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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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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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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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Ant Creature Dead Depend Land Lead Remove
Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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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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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 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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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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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