The variety of genes on the planet in viruses exceeds, or is likely to exceed, that in all of the rest of life combined.
E. O. WILSONThe 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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Ants have the most complicated social organization on earth next to humans.
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True character arises from a deeper well than religion.
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Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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 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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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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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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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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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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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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By any reasonable measure of achievement, the faith of the Enlightenment thinkers in science was justified.
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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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One thing I did was grow up as an ardent naturalist. I never grew out of my bug period.
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