The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Every major religion today is a winner in the Darwinian struggle waged among cultures, and none ever flourished by tolerating its rivals.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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What’s been gratifying is to live long enough to see molecular biology and evolutionary biology growing toward each other and uniting in research efforts.
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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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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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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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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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In many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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We have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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