Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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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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.
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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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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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The world depends on fungi, because they are major players in the cycling of materials and energy around the world.
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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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Religious belief itself is an adaptation that has evolved because we’re hard-wired to form tribalistic religions.
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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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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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Religious beliefs evolved by group-selection, tribe competing against tribe, and the illogic of religions is not a weakness but their essential strength.
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Without a trace of irony I can say I have been blessed with brilliant enemies. I owe them a great debt, because they redoubled my energies and drove me in new directions.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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Individual versus group selection results in a mix of altruism and selfishness, of virtue and sin, among the members of a society.
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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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