There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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Competing is intense among humans, and within a group, selfish individuals always win. But in contests between groups, groups of altruists always beat groups of selfish individuals.
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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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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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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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The one process now going on that will take millions of years to correct is the loss of genetic and species diversity by the destruction of natural habitats.
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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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