There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
E. O. WILSONOne thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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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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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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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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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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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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The two major challenges for the 21st century are to improve the economic situation of the majority and save as much of the planet as we can.
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