People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
E. O. WILSONIf 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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There is no better high than discovery.
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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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We should preserve every scrap of biodiversity as priceless while we learn to use it and come to understand what it means to humanity.
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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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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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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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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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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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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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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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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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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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