If insects were to vanish, the environment would collapse into chaos.
E. O. WILSONIn many environments, take away the ants and there would be partial collapses in many of the land ecosystems.
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People respect nonfiction but they read novels.
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The education of women is the best way to save the environment.
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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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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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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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Ants are the dominant insects of the world, and they’ve had a great impact on habitats almost all over the land surface of the world for more than 50-million years.
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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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We are drowning in information, while starving for wisdom.
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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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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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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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Persist! The world needs all you can give.
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Because the living environment is what really sustains us.
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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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