Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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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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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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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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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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