Nature holds the key to our aesthetic, intellectual, cognitive and even spiritual satisfaction.
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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I’m very much a Christian in ideals and ethics, especially in terms of belief in fairness, a deep set obligation to others, and the virtues of charity, tolerance and generosity that we associate with traditional Christian teaching.
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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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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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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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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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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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Science and religion are the two most powerful forces in the world. Having them at odds… is not productive.
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I tend to believe that religious dogma is a consequence of evolution.
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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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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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You are capable of more than you know. Choose a goal that seems right for you and strive to be the best, however hard the path.
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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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When you have seen one ant, one bird, one tree, you have not seen them all.
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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 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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