Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
E. O. WILSONJehovah 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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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This is the folly our descendants are least likely to forgive us.
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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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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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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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Theology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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