Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
E. O. WILSONOur 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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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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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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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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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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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