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.
E. O. WILSONTheology made no provision for evolution. The biblical authors had missed the most important revelation of all! Could it be that they were not really privy to the thoughts of God?
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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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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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Blind faith, no matter how passionately expressed, will not suffice.
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Destroying rainforest for economic gain is like burning a Renaissance painting to cook a meal.
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Science for its part will test relentlessly every assumption about the human condition.
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If those committed to the quest fail, they will be forgiven. When lost, they will find another way.
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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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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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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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In some ways, I had a traditional ‘old South’ upbringing, meaning that I spent some time in a military school, and acquired an
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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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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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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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