We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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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Our brain is mapping the world. Often that map is distorted, but it’s a map with constant immediate sensory input.
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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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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Well, let me tell you, ants are the dominant insects. They make up as much as a quarter of the biomass of all insects in the world. They are the principal predators. They’re the cemetery workers.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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