Persist! The world needs all you can give.
E. O. WILSONWe have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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Ants make up two-thirds of the biomass of all the insects. There are millions of species of organisms and we know almost nothing about them.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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