The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
E. O. WILSONScience for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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