True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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 some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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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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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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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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