We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
E. O. WILSONIf insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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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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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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Political ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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