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The moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.

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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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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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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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Jehovah had nothing to say to Moses and the others about the care of the planet. He had plenty to say about tribal loyalty and conquest.
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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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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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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human 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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The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
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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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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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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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