Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
E. O. WILSONWe 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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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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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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I 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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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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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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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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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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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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