Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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If all mankind were to disappear, the world would regenerate back to the rich state of equilibrium that existed ten thousand years ago.
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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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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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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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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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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