Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
E. O. WILSONPeople respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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 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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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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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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