If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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Every kid has a bug period… I never grew out of mine.
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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 moral imperative of humanism is the endeavor alone, whether successful or not, provided the effort is honorable and failure memorable.
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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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If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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Ideas emerge when a part of the real or imagined world is studied for its own sake.
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Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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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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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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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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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