This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
E. O. WILSONI 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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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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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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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In 2010, my two Harvard mathematician colleagues and I dismantled kin-selection theory, which was the reigning theory of the origin of altruism at the time.
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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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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 are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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