Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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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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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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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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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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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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There is no better high than discovery.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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