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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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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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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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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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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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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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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 those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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People need a sacred narrative. They must have a sense of larger purpose, in one form or another, however intellectualized. They will find a way to keep ancestral spirits alive.
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There doesn’t seem to be any other way of creating the next green revolution without GMOs.
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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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