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.
E. O. WILSONAnts are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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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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Companies that are willing to share, to withhold in order to further the growth of the company.
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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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The world henceforth will be run by synthesizers, people able to put together the right information at the right time, think critically about it, and make important choices wisely.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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An individual ant, even though it has a brain about a millionth of a size of a human being’s, can learn a maze; the kind we use is a simple rat maze in a laboratory. They can learn it about one-half as fast as a rat.
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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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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