If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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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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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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 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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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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It’s always been a great survival value for people to believe they belong to a superior tribe. That’s just in human relationships.
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The essence of humanity’s spiritual dilemma is that we evolved genetically to accept one truth and discovered another. Is there a way to erase the dilemma, to resolve the contradictions between the transcendentalist and the empiricist world views?
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