Change will come slowly, across generations, because old beliefs die hard even when demonstrably false.
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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Perhaps the time has come to cease calling it the ‘environmentalist’ view, as though it were a lobbying effort outside the mainstream of human activity, and to start calling it the real-world view.
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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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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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Ants are the leading removers of dead creatures on the land. And the rest of life is substantially dependent upon them.
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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It’s about conflicts between creation stories.
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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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Willing to try to get a better atmosphere through a demonstration of democratic principles, fairness and cooperation, a better product, those will win in the end.
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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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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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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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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 have decommissioned natural selection and must now look deep within ourselves and decide what we wish to become.
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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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Aim high. Behave honorably. Prepare to be alone at times, and to endure failure.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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If history and science have taught us anything, it is that passion and desire are not the same as truth.
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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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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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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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Of course, there is no reconciliation between the theory of evolution by natural selection and the traditional religious view of the origin of the human mind.
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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 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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