Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
E. O. WILSONIf those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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It’s obvious that the key problem facing humanity in the coming century is how to bring a better quality of life – for 8 billion or more people – without wrecking the environment entirely in the attempt.
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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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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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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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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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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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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