In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
E. O. WILSONPolitical ideology can corrupt the mind, and science.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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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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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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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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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